Wells County, IN
The federal environmental record for Wells County (population 28,555): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
11
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Wells 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)
8 facilities in Wells filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 103k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRC RUBBER & PLASTICS INC | BLUFFTON | Zinc compounds | 53k lb |
| VALERO BLUFFTON PLANT | BLUFFTON | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 30k lb |
| MATALCO BLUFFTON LLC | BLUFFTON | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Manganese | 21k lb |
| WEG ELECTRIC CORP. | BLUFFTON | Chromium | 7 lb |
| INTEVA PRODUCTS-BLUFFTON OPERATIONS | BLUFFTON | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 5 lb |
| ADM ANIMAL NUTRITION INC | BLUFFTON | - | 0 lb |
| NOVAE LLC | MARKLE | - | 0 lb |
| METALDYNE M&A BLUFFTON LLC | BLUFFTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 84 tank facilities in Wells: 48 tanks in service and 174 closed. 43 fuel releases are on record, of which 11 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Wells 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 Wells, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BLUFFTON ELECTRIC PROPERTIESBLUFFTON
- MERRILL MEYERSBLUFFTON