Knox County, OH
The federal environmental record for Knox County (population 63,320): 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
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Knox 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 Knox filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 30 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESTRESS SERVICES INDUSTRIES LLC - PLANT 6 | MOUNT VERNON | Chromium, Nickel | 20 lb |
| F.T. PRECISION INC. | FREDERICKTOWN | Copper, Lead | 8 lb |
| OWENS CORNING INSULATING SYSTEMS LLC MOUNT VERNON | MOUNT VERNON | Lead And Lead Compounds | 2 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 136 tank facilities in Knox: 165 tanks in service and 265 closed. 165 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Knox 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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