Porter County, IN
The federal environmental record for Porter County (population 175,335): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
21
TRI facilities
38
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Porter 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)
21 facilities in Porter filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 10.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEVELAND-CLIFFS BURNS HARBOR LLC | BURNS HARBOR | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Zinc compounds | 10.4M lb |
| US STEEL CORP MIDWEST PLANT | PORTAGE | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Manganese | 128k lb |
| SEQUA COATINGS CORP-PRECOAT METALS DIV | PORTAGE | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 86k lb |
| SHOREMET LLC | VALPARAISO | Copper, Lead | 54k lb |
| SUN COSMETICS LLC | VALPARAISO | Ammonia | 38k lb |
| AM STABILIZERS CORP | VALPARAISO | Zinc compounds, Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 33k lb |
| NLMK INDIANA | PORTAGE | Zinc (fume or dust), Manganese | 24k lb |
| URSCHEL LABORATORIES INC | CHESTERTON | Chromium, Copper | 24k lb |
| AOC LLC | VALPARAISO | Styrene, Phthalic anhydride | 12k lb |
| LEGGETT & PLATT INC | KOUTS | Zinc compounds | 9k lb |
| PRATT PAPER (IN) LLC | VALPARAISO | Ammonia, Hydrogen sulfide | 7k lb |
| PVS TECHNOLOGIES INC. | PORTAGE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead compounds | 7k lb |
| UNION ELECTRIC STEEL CORP | VALPARAISO | Chromium, Nickel | 4k lb |
| PVS TECHNOLOGIES INC. | BURNS HARBOR | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead And Lead Compounds | 3k lb |
| LAKE CABLE OF INDIANA LLC | VALPARAISO | Antimony compounds | 755 lb |
| WORTHINGTON STEEL CO | PORTER | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Manganese | 699 lb |
| NATL PARK SERVICE INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK INDU | CHESTERTON | Lead | 357 lb |
| CHROME DEPOSIT CORP | PORTAGE | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 124 lb |
| STEEL TECHNOLOGIES LLC | PORTAGE | - | 0 lb |
| STEEL WAREHOUSE OF BURNS HARBOR | PORTAGE | - | 0 lb |
| INDIANA PICKLING & PROCESSING CO. | PORTAGE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 415 tank facilities in Porter: 302 tanks in service and 953 closed. 229 fuel releases are on record, of which 38 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Porter as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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 Porter, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BEVERLY SHORES GROUNDWATERBEVERLY SHORES
- CHEM METALS COMPANYVALPARAISO
- CLEVELAND CLIFFS BURNS HARBOR FORMERLY ARCELORMITTALBURNS HARBOR
- DUNES HWY MI CITY PB SITEMICHIGAN CITY
- MAGNETICS INTERNATIONAL RELEASEBURNS HARBOR
- PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AREAMICHIGAN CITY
- PORTAGE DRUM SITEPORTAGE
- TOWN OF PINES ARSENIC SITETOWN OF PINES
- TOWN OF PINES GROUNDWATER PLUMEMICHIGAN CITY