Putnam County, IN

The federal environmental record for Putnam County (population 37,567): 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 Putnam 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 Putnam filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 187k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
BUZZI UNICEM USA-GREENCASTLE PLANT	GREENCASTLE	Barium And Barium Compounds, Zinc compounds	132k lb
HEARTLAND AUTOMOTIVE LLC	GREENCASTLE	Cyclohexane, Diisocyanates	28k lb
POET BIOREFINING-CLOVERDALE LLC	CLOVERDALE	n-Hexane, Acetaldehyde	27k lb
CROWN EQUIPMENT CORP	GREENCASTLE	-	0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 106 tank facilities in Putnam: 87 tanks in service and 233 closed. 66 fuel releases are on record, of which 25 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Putnam 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 Putnam, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

CLOVERDALE SEMI-TRUCK DIESEL DISCHARGECLOVERDALE
MIDWAY MOTELCLOVERDALE