Rock Island County, IL
The federal environmental record for Rock Island County (population 141,236): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
10
federal cleanup sites
4
PFAS-detecting water systems
16
TRI facilities
70
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Rock Island 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, US ARMY IL1615387 | PFBA: 16 ng/L PFOA: 4.6 ng/L | above final limit |
| EAST MOLINE IL1610250 | PFBA: 24 ng/L PFBS: 3.6 ng/L | detected |
| MOLINE IL1610450 | PFBA: 22 ng/L | detected |
| ROCK ISLAND IL1610650 | PFBA: 16 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
16 facilities in Rock Island filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYSON FRESH MEATS INC - JOSLIN IL | HILLSDALE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 1.7M lb |
| 3M CHEMICAL OPERATIONS' CORDOVA FACILITY | CORDOVA | Hydrogen fluoride, Nickel And Nickel Compounds | 82k lb |
| SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO | MOLINE | Zinc compounds, Certain glycol ethers | 36k lb |
| JOHN DEERE HARVESTER WORKS EAST MOLINE | EAST MOLINE | Zinc compounds, Manganese | 34k lb |
| JOHN DEERE SEEDING & CYLINDER | MOLINE | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Lead And Lead Compounds | 12k lb |
| ROCK ISLAND LUBRICANTS (RILCO) | ROCK ISLAND | Methanol, Ethylene glycol | 466 lb |
| MCKAY'S PLATING CO | HAMPTON | Zinc compounds, Cyanide compounds | 376 lb |
| STEEL WAREHOUSE OF QUAD CITIES (SPC) | ROCK ISLAND | Manganese, Nickel | 373 lb |
| ALLIED ASPHALT (MC-29) | MILAN | Hydrogen sulfide, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 295 lb |
| WILLIAMS WHITE & CO | MOLINE | Manganese | 12 lb |
| ATLAS ROOFING CORP | EAST MOLINE | Diisocyanates | 1 lb |
| GEORGE EVANS CORP | MOLINE | Manganese | 1 lb |
| SANDSTROM PRODUCTS CO | PORT BYRON | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
| INPRO / SEAL | ROCK ISLAND | - | 0 lb |
| PRECISION ALUMINUM | ROCK ISLAND | Lead | 0 lb |
| ROCK ISLAND LUBRICANTS CO | MOLINE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 417 tank facilities in Rock Island: 336 tanks in service and 941 closed. 310 fuel releases are on record, of which 70 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Rock Island 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 Rock Island, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AA WASTE OIL SERVICE INCORPORATIONROCK ISLAND
- DEERE JOHN PLOW & PLANTER WKSMOLINE
- EAST MOLINE MERCURYEAST MOLINE
- ESG WATTS INC. - SANITARY LANDFILLANDALUSIA
- MCKAY PLATING COHAMPTON
- NATIONAL RAILWAY EQUIPMENTSILVIS
- ROCK ISLAND PLATING WORKS (B)ROCK ISLAND
- SYLVAN SLOUGHROCK ISLAND
- US ARMY ROCK ISLAND ARSENALROCK ISLAND
- WEAR-COTE INTERNATIONAL INCROCK ISLAND