Licking County, OH
The federal environmental record for Licking County (population 183,201): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
12
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
21
TRI facilities
16
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Licking with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| NEWARK CITY PWS OH4502314 | PFBA: 9.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
21 facilities in Licking filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 731k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| OWENS CORNING INSULATING SYSTEMS LLC NEWARK OH FACILITY | NEWARK | Ammonia, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 338k lb |
| MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS QUARTZ INC-NEWARK PLANT | HEBRON | Ammonia | 138k lb |
| ANOMATIC CORP | NEWARK | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 77k lb |
| SAMUEL PACKAGING SYSTEMS GROUP | HEATH | Lead, Certain glycol ethers | 60k lb |
| ANOMATIC CORP - OHIO PLANT II | NEW ALBANY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 52k lb |
| CLEAN HARBORS RECYCLING SERVICES OF OHIO LLC | HEBRON | N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone, Ethylene glycol | 32k lb |
| RESINOID ENGINEERING CORP | HEBRON | Phenol | 21k lb |
| LEAR - HEBRON PLANT | HEBRON | Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate, Diisocyanates | 7k lb |
| MARATHON PIPE LINE - HEATH TERMINAL | HEATH | n-Hexane, Toluene | 3k lb |
| TAMARACK FARMS DAIRY | NEWARK | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 2k lb |
| TRI-TECH LABORATORIES INC | NEW ALBANY | Certain glycol ethers | 686 lb |
| KAISER ALUMINUM FABRICATED PRODUCTS LLC. | HEATH | Zinc compounds, Copper And Copper Compounds | 573 lb |
| STATE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS | HEBRON | Ethylene glycol | 412 lb |
| COVESTRO NEWARK COMPOUNDING FACILITY | HEBRON | Potassium perfluorobutane sulfonate | 261 lb |
| HENDRICKSON AUXILIARY AXLE SYSTEMS | HEBRON | Manganese | 35 lb |
| TECH INTERNATIONAL (JOHNSTOWN) | JOHNSTOWN | Xylene (mixed isomers) | 10 lb |
| BOWERSTON SHALE CO | NEWARK | - | 0 lb |
| BOBBIE BABY INC (FORMERLY NATURE'S ONE) | HEATH | - | 0 lb |
| AMPACET CORP | HEATH | - | 0 lb |
| SHELLY MATERIALS PLANT NO 94 (0145000399) | REYNOLDSBURG | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lb |
| ALADDIN MANUFACTURING CARPET CUSHION - JOHNSTOWN OH | JOHNSTOWN | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 307 tank facilities in Licking: 286 tanks in service and 620 closed. 411 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Licking 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 Licking, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- GRANVILLE SOLVENTS INCGRANVILLE
- HEATH MERCURY SPILLHEATH
- JOHN MERCER PROPERTYALEXANDRIA
- KILGORE MANUFACTURING DRY CREEK ROAD PLANT SITEGRANVILLE
- LEGEND SMELTING AND RECYCLINGNEWARK
- LICKING CHEMICAL SPILLTHORNVILLE
- MATLACK INC PATASKALA TERMINAL *PATASKALA
- MCPEEK LODGEGRANVILLE
- NEWARK AIR FORCE BASEHEATH
- QUALITY CHEMICAL SITENEWARK
- S-21 NEWARKNEWARK
- TH SANDBLASTINGHEATH