Lawrence County, IN
The federal environmental record for Lawrence County (population 45,084): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
25
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lawrence 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 Lawrence filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 314k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEIDELBERG MATERIALS US CEMENT LLC | MITCHELL | Hydrogen cyanide, Formaldehyde | 313k lb |
| GENERAL MOTORS LLC-BEDFORD GPS | BEDFORD | Copper, Lead | 416 lb |
| INDIANA STEEL & ENGINEERING CORP. | BEDFORD | - | 0 lb |
| GEO-FLO CORP | BEDFORD | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 129 tank facilities in Lawrence: 101 tanks in service and 304 closed. 68 fuel releases are on record, of which 25 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lawrence 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 Lawrence, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- GENERAL MOTOR BEDFORDBEDFORD
- HOOSIER NF: BRANCHVILLE SITEBEDFORD
- POPCORN ROAD ABANDONED HOUSESPRINGVILLE
- RECYCLING SERVICES OF INDIANABEDFORD