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Dallman is the second CWLP power plant built on the shores of Lake Springfield. The first, Lakeside Power Plant, was completed in 1936. Although largely supplanted by Dallman, Lakeside remained in partial operation to meet customer load until it was decommissioned in 2009 when Dallman Unit 4 was
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Unit 3 (later renamed Unit 33) was completed in 1978, and had a nameplate capacity of 192 MW, more than doubling the amount of power the plant could generate. In 1980 a scrubber was placed on the Unit 3 smokestack to remove
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Unit 4 was completed in 2009 at a cost of $ 515 million. The smokestack is 440 feet high. The unit's construction was made possible in part by a 2006 agreement between the City of Springfield and the
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that included closing the remaining Lakeside Power Plant units and investing in renewable energy. It was the first such agreement in the US to implement the provisions of the
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valley downstream of Lake Springfield. The Dallman pond, built in 1976 and expanded in the 1980s, is next to a pond that holds ash from the Lakeside plant. A 2022 report by
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Units 1 and 2 of the Dallman Plant were completed in 1968 and 1972 respectively. Later renamed Units 31 and 32, they each had
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Dallman consists of four units, built in 1968, 1972, 1978, and 2009. Only the most recently-built unit is still operating.
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found that the Dallman ash pond was responsible for highly elevated levels of arsenic and boron in nearby groundwater.
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As of 2021, the plant has a generating capacity of 207 MW. Although CWLP also operates three
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Lake Springfield In Illinois: Public Works and Community Design in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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was installed on these units in 2001. Both units were retired in 2020 under an
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Pollution, Politics, and Power: The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity
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The Dallman plant was named for Vincent Y. Dallman, former owner of the
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The plant receives "once-through" cooling water from Lake Springfield.
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from Dallman is placed in a coal ash pond near the plant in the
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39°45′17″N 89°36′09″W / 39.754803°N 89.602389°W / 39.754803; -89.602389
Nameplate capacity
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Springfield, Illinois
Lake Springfield
City Water, Light & Power
cooling water
Illinois State Register
nameplate capacities
scrubber
Integrated Resource Plan
sulfur dioxide
Sierra Club
Kyoto Protocol
Viper Mine
Elkhart
peaker plants
Coal ash
Sugar Creek
Environmental Integrity Project
Earthjustice
ISBN
9781634992930





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