Wayne County, IN
The federal environmental record for Wayne County (population 66,127): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
16
TRI facilities
20
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Wayne 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)
16 facilities in Wayne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 179k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNCALL AMERICA INC | RICHMOND | Ammonia, Chromium | 89k lb |
| BELDEN | RICHMOND | Antimony And Antimony Compounds, Zinc compounds | 62k lb |
| HOLLAND COLOURS AMERICAS INC | RICHMOND | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 15k lb |
| AUTOCAR LLC | HAGERSTOWN | Ethylene glycol | 5k lb |
| SILGAN WHITE CAP CORP | RICHMOND | Methyl isobutyl ketone, Certain glycol ethers | 2k lb |
| MATTHEWS STAMPING | RICHMOND | Manganese, Copper | 1k lb |
| JOHNS MANVILLE | RICHMOND | Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 1k lb |
| BELDEN CDT INC-BEC | RICHMOND | Copper And Copper Compounds | 1k lb |
| WHITEWATER VALLEY GENERATING STATION | RICHMOND | Lead compounds | 789 lb |
| HEARTLAND PET FOOD MANUFACTURING INDIANA LLC | RICHMOND | Zinc compounds | 516 lb |
| CHAMPION TARGET | RICHMOND | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 210 lb |
| MADISON - KIPP CORP - RICHMOND | RICHMOND | Copper, Lead | 23 lb |
| RICHMOND BEVERAGE SOLUTIONS LLC | RICHMOND | Nitric acid, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 10 lb |
| LAND O'LAKES PURINA FEED LLC - RICHMOND | RICHMOND | - | 0 lb |
| ENVIROTECH EXTRUSION | RICHMOND | - | 0 lb |
| HIXSON LUMBER CO LLC | RICHMOND | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 249 tank facilities in Wayne: 162 tanks in service and 651 closed. 136 fuel releases are on record, of which 20 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Wayne 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 Wayne, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- DANA CORPORATION/PERFECT CIRCLE DIVISIONHAGERSTOWN
- MY WAY TRADING WAREHOUSERICHMOND
- RICHMOND GAS PLANT SITERICHMOND