Jasper County, IL
The federal environmental record for Jasper County (population 9,144): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Jasper with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| E J WATER COOP IL0790010 | PFBA: 6.2 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
2 facilities in Jasper filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 967k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWTON ENERGY CENTER | NEWTON | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 960k lb |
| SKYLINE STEEL LLC-NEWTON | NEWTON | Manganese, Lead | 8k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 51 tank facilities in Jasper: 12 tanks in service and 106 closed. 37 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Jasper as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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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