Marshall County, KY
The federal environmental record for Marshall County (population 31,777): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
2
Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
13
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airco | Calvert City | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
| B.F. Goodrich | Calvert City | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Marshall 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)
13 facilities in Marshall filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEKISUI SPECIALTY CHEMICALS AMERICA LLC | CALVERT CITY | Methanol, Vinyl acetate | 720k lb |
| ISP CHEMICALS LLC | CALVERT CITY | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 246k lb |
| WESTLAKE VINYLS INC | CALVERT CITY | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Ethylene | 207k lb |
| EVONIK CORP | CALVERT CITY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Vinyl acetate | 180k lb |
| WESTLAKE VINYLS INC. - PVC PLANT | CALVERT CITY | Acetophenone, Vinyl chloride | 154k lb |
| ARKEMA INC | CALVERT CITY | 1-Chloro-1,1-difluoroethane (HCFC-142b), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 125k lb |
| WACKER CHEMICAL CORP POLYMERS DIV | CALVERT CITY | Ethylene, Methanol | 115k lb |
| CC METALS & ALLOYS LLC | CALVERT CITY | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 59k lb |
| LUBRIZOL ADVANCED MATERIALS INC | CALVERT CITY | Cyclohexane, Benzene | 26k lb |
| ESTRON CHEMICALS INC | CALVERT CITY | Methyl methacrylate, Butyl acrylate | 24k lb |
| 3A COMPOSITES USA INC | BENTON | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 7k lb |
| CYMETECH CORP. | CALVERT CITY | Dicyclopentadiene, Styrene | 41 lb |
| CHAMPION HOME BUILDERS, INC. PLANT 20 | BENTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 186 tank facilities in Marshall: 73 tanks in service and 517 closed. 137 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Marshall as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Marshall, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AIRCOCALVERT CITY
- G A F CORP.CALVERT CITY
- LWD, INC.CALVERT CITY
- MARSHALL COUNTY HAZMAT RESPONSEBENTON
- MARSHALL SCHOOLS MERCURYBENTON
- PITTSBURGH METALLURGICALCALVERT CITY
- TVA KENTUCKY HYDRO PLANTGILBERTSVILLE
- WEST KENTUCKY BATTERYBENTON
- WESTLAKE VINYLS INCCALVERT CITY