Fairfield County, OH
The federal environmental record for Fairfield County (population 165,360): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
17
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Fairfield 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 Fairfield filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 57k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIRBA SOLUTIONS US INC | LANCASTER | Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds, Nickel And Nickel Compounds | 44k lb |
| WESTERMAN INC. | BREMEN | Manganese, Copper | 11k lb |
| CROWN CORK & SEAL CO (USA) INC CROWN CLOSURES DIV | LANCASTER | Xylene (mixed isomers), Certain glycol ethers | 1k lb |
| WESTERMAN INC. PAINT & BLAST CAMPUS | BREMEN | Manganese, Copper | 1k lb |
| OHIO PAPERBOARD | BALTIMORE | Lead | 9 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 207 tank facilities in Fairfield: 186 tanks in service and 442 closed. 266 fuel releases are on record, of which 17 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Fairfield 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Fairfield, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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