Douglas County, IL
The federal environmental record for Douglas County (population 19,629): 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
3
TRI facilities
19
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Douglas 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)
3 facilities in Douglas filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 34k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARSTIN BRANDS LLC | ARTHUR | Styrene | 33k lb |
| CABOT CORP FMO DIV | TUSCOLA | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 810 lb |
| C.H.I. OVERHEAD DOORS | ARTHUR | Lead, Diisocyanates | 65 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 90 tank facilities in Douglas: 48 tanks in service and 227 closed. 70 fuel releases are on record, of which 19 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Douglas 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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