Douglas County, WI
The federal environmental record for Douglas County (population 44,264): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
33
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Douglas 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)
5 facilities in Douglas filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 811k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUPERIOR REFINING CO LLC | SUPERIOR | Xylene (mixed isomers), n-Hexane | 356k lb |
| GRAYMONT (WI) INC. | SUPERIOR | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead And Lead Compounds | 250k lb |
| CHARTER NEXT GENERATION - SUPERIOR | SUPERIOR | Ozone | 204k lb |
| AMSOIL INC-AMSOIL CENTER | SUPERIOR | 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 1k lb |
| GENESIS ATTACHMENTS LLC | SUPERIOR | Manganese, Nickel | 34 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 327 tank facilities in Douglas: 134 tanks in service and 791 closed. 296 fuel releases are on record, of which 33 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Douglas as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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 Douglas, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BURLINGTON NORTHERN SITESUPERIOR
- LAKEHEAD BLACKTOP H2S RELEASESUPERIOR
- TORREY'S FURNITUREPOPLAR