Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Colorado Springs Utilities Martin Drake Power Plant have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Colorado Springs Utilities Martin Drake Power Plant
Total reported releases 1.3M lb rose by an order of magnitude year over year (+2679%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
700 S CONEJOS ST, Colorado Springs, Colorado · 221112 · Electric Utilities · operated by Colorado Springs Utilities
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Asbestos (friable)
Asbestos (friable) releases at Colorado Springs Utilities Martin Drake Power Plant rose from 47k lb to 1.3M lb (27.8×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Asbestos (friable)
Asbestos (friable) volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (73 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 79,448. Why we surface this →
32.3%
Low-income
30.5%
People of color
4.8%
Under age 5
18.0%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.