Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Mcdonough/Atkinson Steam Electric Generating Plant fell from 640k lb to 180k lb (72% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Mcdonough/Atkinson Steam Electric Generating Plant
Total reported releases 180k lb fell sharply year over year (-72%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
5551 S COBB DR SE, Atlanta, Georgia · 221112 · Electric Utilities · operated by Southern Co
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Mcdonough/Atkinson Steam Electric Generating Plant have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 61% since 2012.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (49 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 62,305. Why we surface this →
23.6%
Low-income
61.0%
People of color
6.7%
Under age 5
12.0%
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.