Carroll County, KY
The federal environmental record for Carroll County (population 10,938): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Carroll 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CARROLLTON UTILITIES KY0210067 | PFHxS: 12 ng/L PFBS: 4 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
6 facilities in Carroll filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 11.6M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH AMERICAN STAINLESS | GHENT | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Zinc compounds | 8.9M lb |
| KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO GHENT STATION | GHENT | Barium And Barium Compounds, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 1.7M lb |
| DOW SILICONES CORP | CARROLLTON | Copper And Copper Compounds, Chloromethane | 987k lb |
| CABOT CORP | CARROLLTON | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Chlorine | 18k lb |
| PMC ORGANOMETALLIX INC. | CARROLLTON | Xylene (mixed isomers), Chloromethane | 16k lb |
| CERTAINTEED GYPSUM CARROLLTON LLC | CARROLLTON | Mercury compounds, Lead compounds | 31 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 75 tank facilities in Carroll: 33 tanks in service and 180 closed. 50 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Carroll 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 Carroll, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BFI INCCARROLLTON
- LIQUID TRANS ACID SPILLCARROLLTON
- RICH LADDERCARROLLTON
- RICH LADDER #1CARROLLTON
- RICH LADDER #2CARROLLTON