Crawford County, OH
The federal environmental record for Crawford County (population 41,529): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
14
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Crawford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GALION CITY OH1700211 | PFBA: 7 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
6 facilities in Crawford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 10k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELTER WORKS | BUCYRUS | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 7k lb |
| RYDER-HEIL BRONZE INC. | BUCYRUS | Copper | 2k lb |
| BUCYRUS BLADES INC | BUCYRUS | Manganese, Nickel | 474 lb |
| TIMKEN CO BUCYRUS BEARING PLANT | BUCYRUS | Manganese, Chromium | 17 lb |
| GALION LLC | GALION | Lead | 4 lb |
| MENNEL MILLING CO BUCYRUS FLOOR MILL DIV | BUCYRUS | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 129 tank facilities in Crawford: 99 tanks in service and 267 closed. 165 fuel releases are on record, of which 14 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Crawford 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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