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Fayette County, OH

The federal environmental record for Fayette County (population 28,817): 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

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

6

TRI facilities

11

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Fayette 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)

6 facilities in Fayette filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 105k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS CO LLCBLOOMINGBURGAcrolein, n-Hexane40k lb
FIBER-TECH INDUSTRIES OHIOWASHINGTON COURT HOUSEStyrene, Methyl methacrylate33k lb
YUSA CORPWASHINGTON COURT HOUSEZinc compounds, Ethylene glycol27k lb
TFO TECH CO LTDJEFFERSONVILLEManganese, Chromium4k lb
SUGAR CREEK PACKING COWASHINGTON COURT HOUSESodium nitrite2k lb
PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - WASHINGTON COURT HOUSEWASHINGTON COURT HOUSE-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 70 tank facilities in Fayette: 107 tanks in service and 125 closed. 92 fuel releases are on record, of which 11 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Fayette 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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