Bureau County, IL

The federal environmental record for Bureau County (population 32,729): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

Site	City	Status	Listed
DePue/New Jersey Zinc/Mobil Chemical Corp.	DePue	on the NPL	05/10/1999

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Bureau 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)

1 facilities in Bureau filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2 lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
SCHLAGE LOCK CO LLC	PRINCETON	Lead	2 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 204 tank facilities in Bureau: 109 tanks in service and 415 closed. 115 fuel releases are on record, of which 37 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Bureau as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 4 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Bureau, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

DEPUE/NEW JERSEY ZINC/MOBIL CHEMICAL CORP.DEPUE
EUCLID CHEMICAL FIRESHEFFIELD
MIDWEST TROPHY MANUFACTURING COPRINCETON
ROSEHILL DEPUE PROPERTY SITEDEPUE
SHEFFIELD (U.S. ECOLOGY, INC.)SHEFFIELD