Impact-assessment report: Chalk Point Steam Electric Station aquatic-monitoring program

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5046052

The Chalk Point Steam Electric Station (SES), owned and operated by the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), is located in the estuarine portion of the Patuxent River just above the Benedict Bridge near Aquasco, Maryland. The plant's two coal-fired units use once-through cooling systems and pursuant to the Code of Maryland Regulations 10.50.01.13, which governs water-quality impact assessments for thermal discharges, PEPCO is required to: assess compliance with mixing-zone specifications that relate discharge flows and thermal-plume size to advective and diffusive properties of the receiving-water body; determine the magnitude and consequences of plant impacts on spawning and nursery areas for organisms that are representative of and important to the receiving body; and determine the magnitude and dollar value of impingement losses.

• Research Organization: Martin Marietta Environmental Systems, Columbia, MD (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5046052
• Report Number(s): PB-85-218097/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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