Boone County, KY
The federal environmental record for Boone County (population 139,093): 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
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
24
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Boone with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| BOONE CO WATER & SEWER DISTRICT KY0080034 | PFPeA: 3.1 ng/L | detected |
| WALTON WATERWORKS DEPARTMENT KY0080442 | PFPeA: 16 ng/L HFPO-DA: 6.8 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
24 facilities in Boone filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 950k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUKE ENERGY KENTUCKY INC. EAST BEND GENERATING STATION | RABBIT HASH | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Barium And Barium Compounds | 728k lb |
| LYONS EAST | WALTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 78k lb |
| GREIF PACKAGING LLC | FLORENCE | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 54k lb |
| MUBEA INC | FLORENCE | Sodium nitrite, Zinc (fume or dust) | 37k lb |
| ARISTECH SURFACES LLC | FLORENCE | Methyl methacrylate, Butyl acrylate | 25k lb |
| CRANE COMPOSITES INC. | FLORENCE | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 6k lb |
| WELDING ALLOYS USA INC | FLORENCE | Chromium, Manganese | 6k lb |
| BOGE RUBBER & PLASTICS USA LLC | HEBRON | Zinc compounds, Ethylene glycol | 5k lb |
| MAGNI INDUSTRIES INC | INDEPENDENCE | Aluminum (fume or dust), Zinc (fume or dust) | 4k lb |
| SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS KENTUCKY LLC | WALTON | Ethylene, Propylene | 3k lb |
| BEST SANITIZERS INC | WALTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 1k lb |
| CELANESE ENGINEERED MATERIALS | FLORENCE | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Copper compounds | 1k lb |
| GE VERNOVA | ERLANGER | Chromium, Manganese | 966 lb |
| SOUTHERN GRAPHIC SYSTEMS LLC | FLORENCE | Copper And Copper Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 699 lb |
| BENDA-LUTZ CORP | WALTON | Aluminum (fume or dust) | 516 lb |
| CLARIOS LLC | FLORENCE | Lead compounds | 107 lb |
| M-I LLC SWECO DIV | FLORENCE | Nickel, Chromium | 30 lb |
| GIVAUDAN FLAVORS CORP | FLORENCE | Nitric acid | 21 lb |
| O'NEAL MANUFACTURING SERVICES | BURLINGTON | Manganese | 1 lb |
| ROBERT BOSCH AUTOMOTIVE STEERING LLC | FLORENCE | Chromium | 0 lb |
| LOREAL USA | FLORENCE | - | 0 lb |
| FOUR O CORP | HEBRON | - | 0 lb |
| KUSTOM GROUP | RICHWOOD | - | 0 lb |
| OBARA CORP USA | ERLANGER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 255 tank facilities in Boone: 282 tanks in service and 561 closed. 189 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Boone 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 Boone, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BRAXTON CLEANERS, INC.BURLINGTON
- BUTTERMILK PIKE RESIDENTIAL MERCURYVILLA HILLS
- TAYLORSPORT SAND AND GRAVEL PITTAYLORSPORT