Hardee County, FL
The federal environmental record for Hardee County (population 25,760): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
22
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hardee reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
5 facilities in Hardee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 18k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SECI MIDULLA GENERATING STATION | BOWLING GREEN | Ammonia | 18k lb |
| IPS VANDOLAH POWER | WAUCHULA | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 84 lb |
| PROFILE PRODUCTS - FLORIKAN | BOWLING GREEN | Manganese compounds, Zinc compounds | 13 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN APG | BOWLING GREEN | - | 0 lb |
| FLORIDA FENCE POST CO | ONA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 170 tank facilities in Hardee: 59 tanks in service and 416 closed. 114 fuel releases are on record, of which 22 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hardee as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Hardee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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