Hancock County, IN
The federal environmental record for Hancock County (population 86,166): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
15
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poer Farm | Hancock County | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hancock 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)
8 facilities in Hancock filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 297k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| THURSDAY POOLS | FORTVILLE | Styrene | 247k lb |
| PRECOAT METALS | GREENFIELD | Certain glycol ethers, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 37k lb |
| YAMAHA MARINE PRECISION PROPELLERS INC. GREENFIELD | GREENFIELD | 4,4'-Isopropylidenediphenol, Chromium | 13k lb |
| SCHLAGE LOCK CO LLC | GREENFIELD | Manganese, Nickel | 265 lb |
| INDIANA AUTOMOTIVE FASTENERS | GREENFIELD | Zinc compounds | 250 lb |
| HITACHI ASTEMO GREENFIELD LLC | GREENFIELD | Copper, Manganese | 119 lb |
| RINKER GREENFIELD PIPE | GREENFIELD | Lead | 0 lb |
| HANGER BOLT & STUD CO | GREENFIELD | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 126 tank facilities in Hancock: 110 tanks in service and 337 closed. 82 fuel releases are on record, of which 15 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hancock 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 Hancock, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- POER FARMHANCOCK COUNTY