Ohio County, KY
The federal environmental record for Ohio County (population 23,527): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hartford Coal Co. Stone Quarry | Olaton | deleted | 08/30/1990 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Ohio 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)
5 facilities in Ohio filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIG RIVERS ELECTRIC CORP. WILSON STATION | CENTERTOWN | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Zinc compounds | 2.0M lb |
| PERDUE FOODS LLC - CROMWELL PROCESSING PLANT | BEAVER DAM | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 1.1M lb |
| N.O.F. - FORDSVILLE | FORDSVILLE | Xylene (mixed isomers) | 12k lb |
| MCHENRY BRASS INC | MC HENRY | Copper compounds, Lead compounds | 153 lb |
| NEO INDUSTRIES (KENTUCKY) INC. | BEAVER DAM | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 121 tank facilities in Ohio: 69 tanks in service and 315 closed. 99 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Ohio 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 Ohio, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- FORT HARTFORD COAL CO. STONE QUARRYOLATON
- THE WILEY PROPERTYHARTFORD
- THOMAS INDUSTRIES INCBEAVER DAM