Shelby County, OH
The federal environmental record for Shelby County (population 47,765): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
16
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Shelby 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)
16 facilities in Shelby filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 600k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARGILL INC | SIDNEY | n-Hexane, Nickel | 405k lb |
| PLY GEM | SIDNEY | Toluene, Certain glycol ethers | 107k lb |
| HONDA DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING OF AMERICA LLC - ANNA E | ANNA | Ammonia, Zinc compounds | 61k lb |
| AMERICAN TRIM | SIDNEY | Certain glycol ethers, Methyl methacrylate | 18k lb |
| PLAYTEX MFG. | SIDNEY | Certain glycol ethers | 6k lb |
| HEXA AMERICAS INC | SIDNEY | Styrene | 2k lb |
| MECHANICAL GALV-PLATING CORP | SIDNEY | Zinc compounds, Zinc (fume or dust) | 765 lb |
| COPELAND SCROLL COMPRESSORS LP | SIDNEY | Copper, Lead | 103 lb |
| COPERION FOOD EQUIPMENT LLC | SIDNEY | Chromium, Manganese | 10 lb |
| TOOLING TECHNOLOGY GROUP | FORT LORAMIE | Phenol | 10 lb |
| ADVANCED COMPOSITES INC. | SIDNEY | - | 0 lb |
| FRANCIS MANUFACTURING CO | RUSSIA | - | 0 lb |
| SPRING CREEK | SIDNEY | - | 0 lb |
| HYDRO EXTRUSION USA LLC | SIDNEY | Lead | 0 lb |
| CLOPAY CORP. | RUSSIA | Diisocyanates | 0 lb |
| HUBBARD FEEDS INC | BOTKINS | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 125 tank facilities in Shelby: 121 tanks in service and 238 closed. 170 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Shelby 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 Shelby, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ROSS ALUMINUMSIDNEY
- SHELBY COUNTY DRUM SITESIDNEY
- SIDNEY MERCURYSIDNEY
- WAGNER WARE SITESIDNEY