Marion County, IL
The federal environmental record for Marion County (population 36,673): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
7
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
46
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandoval Zinc Company | Sandoval | on the NPL | 09/16/2011 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Marion 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)
4 facilities in Marion filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 66k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWAN SURFACES LLC | CENTRALIA | Styrene, Zinc compounds | 50k lb |
| GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL LLC | CENTRALIA | Certain glycol ethers | 10k lb |
| RADIAC ABRASIVES INC | SALEM | Naphthalene | 6k lb |
| HAWKINS INC. - CENTRALIA | CENTRALIA | Formic acid, Nitric acid | 376 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 148 tank facilities in Marion: 70 tanks in service and 336 closed. 142 fuel releases are on record, of which 46 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Marion 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 Marion, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- C & M SALVAGEODIN
- CARTER PROPERTY SITESALEM
- JERRY PRATHER METALSCENTRALIA
- PRIOR OIL COMPANYCENTRALIA
- QUEBECOR ABANDONED DRUM REMOVALSALEM
- QUEBECOR ABANDONED DRUM REMOVALSALEM
- SANDOVAL ZINC COMPANYSANDOVAL