Barren County, KY
The federal environmental record for Barren County (population 44,854): 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
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Barren 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 Barren filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 158k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKEBONO BRAKE CORP-GLASGOW | GLASGOW | Copper, Zinc (fume or dust) | 63k lb |
| FELKER BROTHERS | GLASGOW | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 43k lb |
| BRAKING PRODUCTS GROUP US LLC | GLASGOW | Phenol, Copper | 35k lb |
| BLUEGRASS DAIRY & FOOD INC | GLASGOW | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 10k lb |
| NEMAK GLASGOW PLANT #1 | GLASGOW | Chlorine, Copper | 5k lb |
| NEMAK; GLASGOW PLANT #2 | GLASGOW | Lead | 94 lb |
| FELKER BROTHERS CORP. PLANT 2 | GLASGOW | Chromium, Nickel | 13 lb |
| TWB GLASGOW | GLASGOW | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 241 tank facilities in Barren: 98 tanks in service and 639 closed. 194 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Barren 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 Barren, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- FORMER INNOVATIVE FINISHING LLCGLASGOW
- MALLORY CAPACITOR, INC. (FORMER)GLASGOW