Holmes County, OH
The federal environmental record for Holmes County (population 44,386): 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
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Holmes 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 Holmes filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 78k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAYNE-DALTON CORP | MOUNT HOPE | Manganese, Nickel | 73k lb |
| RPM INDUSTRIAL COATINGS GROUP INC DBA FINISHWORKS | MILLERSBURG | Certain glycol ethers, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 3k lb |
| SPERRY & RICE LLC | KILLBUCK | Zinc compounds | 751 lb |
| PROVIA WALNUT CREEK FACILITY | SUGARCREEK | Diisocyanates | 684 lb |
| GALION-GODWIN TRUCK BODY CO LLC | DUNDEE | Manganese, Chromium | 38 lb |
| WESTLAKE ROYAL STONE LLC - STONECRAFT | HOLMESVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 93 tank facilities in Holmes: 50 tanks in service and 178 closed. 128 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Holmes 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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