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Warren County, KY

The federal environmental record for Warren County (population 139,843): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

0

Superfund NPL sites

6

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

21

TRI facilities

0

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Warren 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)

21 facilities in Warren filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 575k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
OWL'S HEAD ALLOYS INC.BOWLING GREENManganese, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)156k lb
BOWLING GREEN METALFORMINGBOWLING GREENZinc compounds, Certain glycol ethers137k lb
GENERAL MOTORS LLC BOWLING GREEN ASSEMBLY PLANTBOWLING GREENXylene (mixed isomers), Certain glycol ethers106k lb
TRACE DIE CAST INCBOWLING GREENCopper, Ethylene glycol52k lb
KOBELCO ALUMINUM AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS LLCBOWLING GREENNitric acid, Aluminum (fume or dust)50k lb
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COBOWLING GREENXylene (mixed isomers), n-Butyl alcohol24k lb
CROWN CORK & SEAL CO USA INC.BOWLING GREENCertain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol21k lb
VALOR LLCBOWLING GREENMethanol, Toluene14k lb
STUPP BRIDGE COBOWLING GREENManganese, Nickel13k lb
KOBELCO ALUMINUM PRODUCTS & EXTRUSIONS INCBOWLING GREENCopper, Chromium843 lb
LORD CORPBOWLING GREENXylene (mixed isomers)250 lb
HENKEL US OPERATIONS CORPBOWLING GREEN1,3,4,6,7,8-Hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethylcyclopenta[g]-2-benzopyran74 lb
AMERICAN HOWA KENTUCKY INC.BOWLING GREENDiisocyanates46 lb
BILSTEIN COLD ROLLED STEEL LPBOWLING GREENChromium6 lb
CONSTELLIUM BOWLING GREENBOWLING GREENLead2 lb
HOLLEY PERFORMANCEBOWLING GREEN-0 lb
NOVA STEEL - NEW FACILITYBOWLING GREEN-0 lb
CANNON AUTOMOTIVE SOLUTIONS INC.BOWLING GREEN-0 lb
HOLLEY DISTRIBUTION CENTERBOWLING GREEN-0 lb
HOLLEY PERFORMANCE PRODUCTSBOWLING GREEN-0 lb
BANDO USA INCBOWLING GREEN-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 376 tank facilities in Warren: 223 tanks in service and 875 closed. 272 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Warren as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Warren, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • BOWLING GREEN TOXIC FUMESBOWLING GREEN
  • EATON CORP BOWLING GREEN PLTBOWLING GREEN
  • KEITH FARM PONDSBOWLING GREEN
  • LOST CIRCLE VOC VAPOR INTRUSIONBOWLING GREEN
  • RAD CHEMICALS INCBOWLING GREEN
  • SPRINGHILL ROCK QUARRYBOWLING GREEN