Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds releases at Colorado Springs Utilities Ray Nixon Power Plant rose from 6k lb to 64k lb (10.7×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Colorado Springs Utilities Ray Nixon Power Plant
Total reported releases 174k lb rose modestly year over year (+7%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
6598 RAY NIXON RD, Fountain, Colorado · 221112 · Electric Utilities · operated by Colorado Springs Utilities
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds releases at Colorado Springs Utilities Ray Nixon Power Plant fell from 101k lb to 47k lb (54% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride at Colorado Springs Utilities Ray Nixon Power Plant have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds at Colorado Springs Utilities Ray Nixon Power Plant have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 5. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds concentrations are up 82% since 2010.
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Nickel And Nickel Compounds
Nickel And Nickel Compounds concentrations have fallen 47% since 2010.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (4 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 6,581. Why we surface this →
27.0%
Low-income
38.3%
People of color
5.0%
Under age 5
10.0%
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.