Blackford County, IN

The federal environmental record for Blackford County (population 11,893): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Blackford 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 Blackford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 77k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
107777 - BRC RUBBER & PLASTICS INC	HARTFORD CITY	Zinc compounds	57k lb
3M CO - HARTFORD CITY	HARTFORD CITY	Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers)	18k lb
BRC RUBBER& PLASTICS INC	MONTPELIER	Zinc compounds	2k lb
NEW INDY CONTAINERBOAD HARTFORD CITY MILL	HARTFORD CITY	Ammonia	260 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 74 tank facilities in Blackford: 37 tanks in service and 153 closed. 37 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Blackford 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Blackford, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

BARBER STREET MERCURY SPILLHARTFORD CITY
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