Madison County, IN
The federal environmental record for Madison County (population 132,504): 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
12
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
36
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Street Corridor Groundwater Contamination | Anderson | on the NPL | 09/13/2018 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Madison 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON WATER DEPARTMENT IN5248002 | PFOS: 4.1 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
7 facilities in Madison filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 25k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELSA LLC | ELWOOD | 1-Bromopropane, Chromium | 12k lb |
| POET BIOREFINING ALEXANDRIA LLC | ALEXANDRIA | n-Hexane, Acetaldehyde | 11k lb |
| MORIROKU TECHNOLOGY N.A. - A | ANDERSON | Toluene | 894 lb |
| NESTLE USA INC-ANDERSON | ANDERSON | Nitric acid, Peracetic acid | 864 lb |
| OWENS BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC PLANT #08 | LAPEL | Lead compounds | 298 lb |
| SIRMAX N.A. INC | ANDERSON | - | 0 lb |
| BEST-EVER DAIRY PRODUCTS | ANDERSON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 378 tank facilities in Madison: 240 tanks in service and 982 closed. 253 fuel releases are on record, of which 36 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Madison 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 Madison, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMACOR RESIDENTIALANDERSON
- BROADWAY STREET CORRIDOR GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATIONANDERSON
- DEPAUW PLATE GLASS CO.ALEXANDRIA
- DOWDEN LDFLINGALLS
- ELWOOD MYSTERY RESPONSESUMMITVILLE
- GARAGE MERCURY SPILLELWOOD
- HOOSIER ROCK WOOLALEXANDRIA
- NU PROCESS CLEANERSANDERSON
- ORIES AUTOBODYALEXANDRIA
- PRIME BATTERY MANUFACTURING CO. INC.ANDERSON
- STATE PLATINGELWOOD
- VICKERS WAREHOUSE SITEANDERSON