Ford County, IL
The federal environmental record for Ford County (population 13,250): 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
2
TRI facilities
13
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Ford 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)
2 facilities in Ford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 500k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON SOLAE | GIBSON CITY | n-Hexane, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 479k lb |
| ONE EARTH ENERGY LLC | GIBSON CITY | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 21k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 85 tank facilities in Ford: 43 tanks in service and 170 closed. 49 fuel releases are on record, of which 13 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Ford 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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