Warrick County, IN
The federal environmental record for Warrick County (population 65,867): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
3
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Warrick 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)
3 facilities in Warrick filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.8M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALCOA WARRICK NEWCO LLC | NEWBURGH | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Carbonyl sulfide | 2.0M lb |
| KAISER ALUMINUM WARRICK LLC | NEWBURGH | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 458k lb |
| SIGECO F B CULLEY GENERATING STATION | NEWBURGH | Vanadium compounds, Zinc compounds | 304k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 102 tank facilities in Warrick: 80 tanks in service and 294 closed. 60 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Warrick 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 Warrick, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- PEABODY COAL CO LYNNVILLE MINE (SIA)LYNNVILLE