Wayne County, OH
The federal environmental record for Wayne County (population 116,510): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
30
TRI facilities
23
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Wayne 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WOOSTER CITY PWS OH8504512 | PFBS: 14.2 ng/L PFPeA: 6.3 ng/L PFBA: 6 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
30 facilities in Wayne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 231k lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKRON BRASS | WOOSTER | Copper, Lead | 103k lb |
| VIBRANTZ CORP | ORRVILLE | Copper compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 41k lb |
| CIRCLE GRAPHICS INC. | WOOSTER | Certain glycol ethers | 28k lb |
| SCHAEFFLER TRANSMISSION LLC | WOOSTER | Ammonia, Copper | 23k lb |
| ARTIFLEX MANUFACTURING LLC GERSTCO DIV WOOSTER | WOOSTER | Certain glycol ethers | 17k lb |
| BEKAERT CORP | ORRVILLE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Zinc compounds | 5k lb |
| SEAMAN CORP - WOOSTER PLANT | WOOSTER | Antimony And Antimony Compounds, Lead compounds | 4k lb |
| FRITO LAY INC | WOOSTER | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 4k lb |
| ARE ACCESSORIES LLC | MOUNT EATON | Styrene | 3k lb |
| G&S BAR & WIRE LLC | WOOSTER | Chromium, Nickel | 697 lb |
| REFCOTEC INC. | ORRVILLE | Methanol | 584 lb |
| ST ENGINEERING HACKNEY INC | KIDRON | Diisocyanates | 516 lb |
| AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS USA LLC | ORRVILLE | Methyl isobutyl ketone, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 481 lb |
| PRECISION PRODUCTS GROUP INC. | APPLE CREEK | Toluene | 414 lb |
| AKRON BRASS | WOOSTER | Copper, Lead | 208 lb |
| QUALITY CASTINGS CO | ORRVILLE | Lead | 91 lb |
| WILL-BURT CO | ORRVILLE | Manganese, Nickel | 35 lb |
| MORGAN TRUCK BODY LLC | ORRVILLE | Chromium | 1 lb |
| UNITED TITANIUM INC | WOOSTER | - | 0 lb |
| WOOSTER PRODUCTS INC | WOOSTER | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
| NUCOR BRIGHT BAR ORRVILLE LLC | ORRVILLE | Nickel, Lead | 0 lb |
| ASSOCIATED MATERIALS LLC | WEST SALEM | - | 0 lb |
| PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - ORRVILLE | ORRVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| SMITHFOODS ORRVILLE INC. | ORRVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| WAYNE-DALTON ROLLING DOOR DIV | DALTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 261 tank facilities in Wayne: 199 tanks in service and 539 closed. 429 fuel releases are on record, of which 23 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Wayne 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 Wayne, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- 7 & 7 MERGER, INCORPORATEDWOOSTER
- BELL & HOWELL PUBLICATION SYSTEMS COWOOSTER
- CECIL'S TRANSMISSION REPAIRDOYLESTOWN
- ROSS LANDFILLDOYLESTOWN