Kankakee County, IL
The federal environmental record for Kankakee County (population 105,940): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
14
TRI facilities
36
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Brothers Pail Recycling (Pembroke) | Pembroke Township | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Kankakee 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)
14 facilities in Kankakee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 988k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUCOR STEEL KANKAKEE INC | BOURBONNAIS | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Zinc compounds | 491k lb |
| CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING | BRADLEY | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 383k lb |
| SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO | KANKAKEE | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Xylene (mixed isomers) | 57k lb |
| CSL BEHRING | BRADLEY | Ammonia, Methanol | 36k lb |
| KENSING LLC | KANKAKEE | 1,2-Dichloroethane, Methanol | 9k lb |
| AHF PRODUCTS | KANKAKEE | Zinc compounds, Lead | 8k lb |
| ROHM & HAAS CHEMICALS LLC | KANKAKEE | Vinyl acetate, Acetaldehyde | 4k lb |
| ARDEX | BOURBONNAIS | n-Hexane, Toluene | 780 lb |
| IKO MIDWEST INC | KANKAKEE | Naphthalene, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 179 lb |
| SUN CHEMICAL CORP | KANKAKEE | - | 0 lb |
| AMERICAN HIGHWAY (A SIMPLEX COMPANY) | KANKAKEE | - | 0 lb |
| CMC STEEL FABRICATORS INC DBA CMC PAVING SOLUTIONS | KANKAKEE | - | 0 lb |
| CMC COATING TOLTEC STEEL | KANKAKEE | - | 0 lb |
| OZINGA READY MIX CONCRETE INC. - MANTENO | MANTENO | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 320 tank facilities in Kankakee: 210 tanks in service and 687 closed. 168 fuel releases are on record, of which 36 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Kankakee 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Kankakee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ABANDONED DRUMS 17000E ROAD SITEPEMBROKE TOWNSHOP
- CROSS BROTHERS PAIL RECYCLING (PEMBROKE)PEMBROKE TOWNSHIP
- MOMENCE ABANDONED DRUMMOMENCE
- PEMBROKE ROADSIDE ASBESTOSHOPKINS PARK
- PETERSON PURITANMOMENCE