Carroll County, IL
The federal environmental record for Carroll County (population 15,526): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
23
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Carroll 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)
8 facilities in Carroll filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 27k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| METFORM L.L.C. HOT FORMED PRODUCTS PLANT | SAVANNA | Chromium, Manganese | 18k lb |
| DANISCO SWEETENERS INC | THOMSON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 7k lb |
| FCI THOMSON | THOMSON | Lead | 612 lb |
| METFORM LLC | MOUNT CARROLL | Chromium, Manganese | 373 lb |
| ELKAY PLUMBING PRODUCTS CO | LANARK | Chromium, Manganese | 278 lb |
| ELKAY PLUMBING PRODUCTS CO | SAVANNA | Chromium, Nickel | 141 lb |
| POWERLAB INC | SAVANNA | Lead And Lead Compounds | 41 lb |
| METFORM CORP EXTRUSION SCIENCE PRODUCTS | SAVANNA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 94 tank facilities in Carroll: 46 tanks in service and 260 closed. 62 fuel releases are on record, of which 23 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Carroll 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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