Erie County, OH
The federal environmental record for Erie County (population 74,035): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Erie 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)
15 facilities in Erie filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 548k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLYNT COMPOSITES USA INC. | SANDUSKY | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 323k lb |
| ARDAGH METAL BEVERAGE USA INC RE: HURON PLANT | HURON | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 93k lb |
| AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INC | HURON | 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene, Styrene | 40k lb |
| CERTAINTEED LLC | MILAN | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Copper And Copper Compounds | 34k lb |
| JOHNS MANVILLE | MILAN | Zinc compounds | 20k lb |
| VENTRA SANDUSKY LLC | SANDUSKY | Styrene | 19k lb |
| OKAMOTO SANDUSKY MANUFACTURING LLC | SANDUSKY | Methyl isobutyl ketone, N,N-Dimethylformamide | 11k lb |
| AMERICAN COLORS INC DISPERSION PLANT SANDUSKY OHIO | SANDUSKY | 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene, Toluene | 3k lb |
| CONCAST METAL PRODUCTS CO | BIRMINGHAM | Copper, Lead | 2k lb |
| THE PITTSBURGH PAINTS CO. | HURON | Zinc compounds, Copper And Copper Compounds | 2k lb |
| THORWORKS INDUSTRIES INC | SANDUSKY | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 847 lb |
| U.S. TSUBAKI POWER TRANSMISSION LLC | SANDUSKY | Nickel, Chromium | 129 lb |
| SANDUSKY INTERNATIONAL INC. | SANDUSKY | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Nickel compounds | 73 lb |
| JBT FOODTECH | SANDUSKY | Chromium, Nickel | 3 lb |
| M. A. HARRISON MANUFACTURING CO INC | WAKEMAN | Copper | 1 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 267 tank facilities in Erie: 197 tanks in service and 469 closed. 344 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Erie 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 Erie, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AKZONOBEL - HURON PACKAGING COATINGS PLANTHURON
- MEIER'S WINERYSANDUSKY
- NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER PLUM BROOK STATIONSANDUSKY