Coal ash processing facility coming to Plant Branch

Georgia Power Company says it will be a decade or more before work is completed on the transfer of toxic coal ash from four ponds to a new 115-acre landfill on the old Plant Branch site. The land, which was home to the now dismantled former coal-fired power plant, is in southeast Putnam County at the Baldwin County line. The Eatonton Messenger has learned some of the coal ash w...