White County, IN
The federal environmental record for White County (population 24,917): 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
15
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving White 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 White filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 148k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL METAL BEVERAGE CONTAINER CORP | MONTICELLO | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 148k lb |
| REGAL BELOIT AMERICA INC | MONTICELLO | Chromium | 1 lb |
| CIVES STEEL CO MIDWEST DIV | WOLCOTT | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 122 tank facilities in White: 86 tanks in service and 256 closed. 52 fuel releases are on record, of which 15 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps White 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 White, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- WHITE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALMONTICELLO