Bourbon County, KY
The federal environmental record for Bourbon County (population 20,093): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Bourbon 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PARIS WATER WORKS KY0090343 | PFPeA: 6.3 ng/L PFBA: 6 ng/L PFHxA: 3.1 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
4 facilities in Bourbon filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 71k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVANTOR PERFORMANCE MATERIALS | PARIS | Zinc compounds, Certain glycol ethers | 50k lb |
| KENTUCKY SMELTING TECHNOLOGY | PARIS | Copper, Lead | 9k lb |
| CENTRAL MOTOR WHEEL OF AMERICA (DBA CMWA) | PARIS | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 8k lb |
| ITW COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION N.A. | PARIS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Sodium nitrite | 5k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 85 tank facilities in Bourbon: 42 tanks in service and 181 closed. 66 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bourbon 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.
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