Lee County, IL
The federal environmental record for Lee County (population 33,654): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
30
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lee 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)
7 facilities in Lee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 109k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INVENERGY NELSON LLC | ROCK FALLS | Ammonia | 70k lb |
| UPM RAFLATAC INC. | DIXON | Ammonia | 26k lb |
| DONALDSON CO DIXON ILLINOIS | DIXON | Methanol, Diisocyanates | 7k lb |
| AZZ GALVANIZING SERVICES-DIXON | DIXON | Zinc compounds, Lead | 5k lb |
| ALLIED-LOCKE INDUSTRIES INC | AMBOY | Manganese, Chromium | 394 lb |
| SPX COOLING TECH LLC (FORMERLY SGS REFRIGERATION INC.) | DIXON | Copper, Manganese | 43 lb |
| RAYNOR MANUFACTURING CORPORATE DRIVE CAMPUS | DIXON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 179 tank facilities in Lee: 81 tanks in service and 360 closed. 101 fuel releases are on record, of which 30 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lee 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Lee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMBOY PYROTECHNICSAMBOY
- DIXON GROUNDWATERDIXON
- DIXON IRON & METAL CO.DIXON
- DIXON NUTRIEN AG FIREDIXON
- JEPSCOR METALSDIXON