Hancock County, OH
The federal environmental record for Hancock County (population 74,704): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
12
TRI facilities
10
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hancock 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)
12 facilities in Hancock filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 898k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL METAL BEVERAGE CONTAINER CORP | FINDLAY | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 398k lb |
| F06 - FOSTORIA OILSEEDS | FOSTORIA | n-Hexane | 231k lb |
| SANOH AMERICA INC. | FINDLAY | Zinc compounds, N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone | 203k lb |
| ASTEMO AMERICAS INC. | FINDLAY | Zinc compounds, Lead | 45k lb |
| THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO | FINDLAY | Zinc compounds, Cobalt compounds | 16k lb |
| WHIRLPOOL CORP FINDLAY DIV | FINDLAY | Certain glycol ethers, Copper | 4k lb |
| SUPERIOR TRIM DBA BACK IN BLACK | FINDLAY | Triethylamine, Toluene | 2k lb |
| CASCADE CORP | FINDLAY | Nickel, Manganese | 256 lb |
| TOWER AUTOMOTIVE OPERATIONS USA 1 LLC | BLUFFTON | Manganese, Nickel | 3 lb |
| FINDLAY PRODUCTS CORP | FINDLAY | - | 0 lb |
| P & A INDUSTRIES | FINDLAY | - | 0 lb |
| MENNEL MILLING - FOSTORIA | FOSTORIA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 163 tank facilities in Hancock: 145 tanks in service and 332 closed. 267 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hancock 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 Hancock, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ARCADIA TRAIN DERAILMENTARCADIA
- CRYSTAL AVENUE BTEX PLUMEFINDLAY
- G2 REVOLUTION FIREFINDLAY
- RELIABLE PLATING COMPANYFINDLAY
- WOODS ETHANOL SYRUP SPILLFOREST