Abstract
A precipitation chemistry network (approx. 300 km/sup 2/) consisting of 19 automatic collectors was installed around a 3200-MW coal-fired power plant located in northwest Georgia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the local plume washout from two 300-m smokestacks. Rain samples and plume directions for a single storm (December 13, 1979) were analyzed. The maximum target area deposition rates for sulfate and nitrate were found to be approx. 45% above the mean deposition rate of the control area (SO/sub 4//sup 2 -/, 1.23 +- 0.14; NO/sub 3//sup -/, 0.65 +- 0.09 nmol cm/sup -2/ h/sup -1/). The maximum deposition rates for sulfate and nitrate were reached for a plume residence time of approx. 1 h at a site approx. 12 km SE of the power plant. Aerosol washout modeling suggested that approx. 70% of the observed excess deposition rate could be attributed to sulfate aerosol derived from the plume. However, nitrate aerosol modeling could account for only 36% of the observed excess nitrate deposition rate. The variability in rainfall intensity makes it impossible to ascribe all of the differences in sulfate and nitrate deposition to plume washout alone.
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