Hancock County, KY
The federal environmental record for Hancock County (population 9,021): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
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federal cleanup sites
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PFAS-detecting water systems
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TRI facilities
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open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Southwire Aluminum Co. | Hawesville | deleted | 05/31/1994 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hancock 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)
4 facilities in Hancock filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 968k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOMTAR PAPER CO LLC HAWESVILLE MILL | HAWESVILLE | Methanol, Ammonia | 790k lb |
| COMMONWEALTH ROLLED PRODUCTS INC | LEWISPORT | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Aluminum (fume or dust) | 174k lb |
| PRECOAT METALS | HAWESVILLE | Xylene (mixed isomers), n-Butyl alcohol | 4k lb |
| SOUTHWIRE CO KENTUCKY PLANT | HAWESVILLE | Lead compounds, Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds | 11 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 43 tank facilities in Hancock: 31 tanks in service and 130 closed. 31 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hancock 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 Hancock, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- NATIONAL SOUTHWIRE ALUMINUM CO.HAWESVILLE