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Highland County, OH

The federal environmental record for Highland County (population 43,614): 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

3

TRI facilities

8

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Highland 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)

3 facilities in Highland filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 942 lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
STANDARDAEROHILLSBOROChromium, Nickel820 lb
ADIENT US LLCGREENFIELDToluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)122 lb
CANDLE-LITE CO LLCLEESBURG-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 102 tank facilities in Highland: 103 tanks in service and 215 closed. 126 fuel releases are on record, of which 8 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Highland 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.

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