Madison County, KY
The federal environmental record for Madison County (population 95,187): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Madison 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 |
|---|---|---|
| KIRKSVILLE WATER ASSOCIATION KY0760672 | PFBA: 9.8 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
10 facilities in Madison filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 350k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVELIS | BEREA | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Aluminum (fume or dust) | 173k lb |
| ENERSYS DELAWARE INC. | RICHMOND | Lead And Lead Compounds, Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 50k lb |
| HITACHI ASTEMO AMERICAS INC. - BEREA KY | BEREA | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Certain glycol ethers | 45k lb |
| US ARMY BLUE GRASS ARMY DEPOT | RICHMOND | Dinitrotoluene (mixed isomers), Dibutyl phthalate | 34k lb |
| SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO | RICHMOND | Toluene, Phthalic anhydride | 33k lb |
| OKONITE CO INC | RICHMOND | Zinc compounds, Lead compounds | 14k lb |
| HYSTER YALE MATERIALS HANDLING INC. | BEREA | Manganese, Nickel | 408 lb |
| MOTOR WHEEL LLC | BEREA | Manganese, Nickel | 5 lb |
| AGC FLAT GLASS N AMERICA INC | RICHMOND | Ammonia | 5 lb |
| RICHMOND AUTO PARTS TECHNOLOGY | RICHMOND | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 252 tank facilities in Madison: 199 tanks in service and 625 closed. 191 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Madison 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 Madison, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BLUEGRASS ARMY DEPOTRICHMOND
- CHENAULT RECTIFIERSRICHMOND
- DECKERT PROPERTY MERCURY SPILLRICHMOND
- FORMER RICHMOND MANUFACTURED GAS PLANT #2RICHMOND
- GROSS PROPERTY MERCURY SITERICHMOND
- MADISON CENTRAL SCHOOL MERCURYRICHMOND
- MOORE BUILDING MERCURY SPILLRICHMOND
- RICHMOND APARTMENT MERCURY SPILLRICHMOND
- WACO TIRE FIRE SITEWACO