Manitowoc County, WI
The federal environmental record for Manitowoc County (population 81,331): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
2
Superfund NPL sites
10
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
23
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lemberger Landfill, Inc. | Whitelaw | on the NPL | 06/10/1986 |
| Lemberger Transport & Recycling | Franklin Township | on the NPL | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Manitowoc 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)
23 facilities in Manitowoc filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 178k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAGEMANN PLATING CO | MANITOWOC | Zinc compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 74k lb |
| TENNECO | MANITOWOC | Chromium, Lead | 31k lb |
| ECK INDUSTRIES | MANITOWOC | Copper, Nickel | 26k lb |
| WELLS COS (FORMERLY SPANCRETE INDUSTRIES INC.) | VALDERS | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 22k lb |
| MANITOWOC PUBLIC UTILITIES | MANITOWOC | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Ammonia | 9k lb |
| ALLIANCE LAUNDRY SYSTEM LLC | MANITOWOC | Antimony compounds | 9k lb |
| PENTAIR - MANITOWOC ICE | MANITOWOC | Nickel And Nickel Compounds, Copper | 4k lb |
| WISCONSIN ALUMINUM FOUNDRY CO INC | MANITOWOC | Naphthalene, Copper | 2k lb |
| CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLC (FORMERLY MILLER ST NAZIANZ) | SAINT NAZIANZ | Manganese | 904 lb |
| SKANA ALUMINUM CO | MANITOWOC | Manganese, Copper | 445 lb |
| MANITOWOC TOOL & MANUFACTURING LLC | MANITOWOC | Manganese, Copper | 252 lb |
| PARKER HANNIFIN CORP - HPD | MANITOWOC | Lead, Manganese | 75 lb |
| KDC/ONE - NORTHERN LABS | MANITOWOC | Certain glycol ethers | 63 lb |
| BROADWIND TOWERS & HEAVY FABRICATIONS | MANITOWOC | Manganese | 42 lb |
| JAGEMANN STAMPING CO | MANITOWOC | Copper, Nickel | 40 lb |
| STOELTING A VOLLRATH CO | KIEL | Copper, Chromium | 22 lb |
| PARKER HANNIFIN CORP PARFLEX DIV | MANITOWOC | Lead compounds | 18 lb |
| HOUSEHOLD UTILITIES INC | KIEL | Manganese, Chromium | 16 lb |
| ROCKWELL LIME CO | MANITOWOC | Lead compounds | 4 lb |
| LDI INDUSTRIES - MANITOWOC | MANITOWOC | Copper, Lead | 0 lb |
| SPARTECH LLC | MANITOWOC | - | 0 lb |
| EVM INC | TWO RIVERS | - | 0 lb |
| MANITOWOC GREY IRON FOUNDRY INC | MANITOWOC | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 555 tank facilities in Manitowoc: 196 tanks in service and 1,172 closed. 292 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Manitowoc 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 Manitowoc, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- FORMER PETROLEUM CONSERVATION INC TANKTWO RIVERS
- LEMBERGER LANDFILL, INC.WHITELAW
- LEMBERGER TRANSPORT & RECYCLINGWHITELAW
- MANITOWOC CITY/FORMER NEWTON TN GRAVEL PITMANITOWOC
- MIRRO SPIRTASMANITOWOC
- PETROLEUM CONSERVATION INCTWO RIVERS
- PIGEON LAKE DRUMSLIBERTY
- U S ARMY RESERVEMANITOWOC
- WISCONSIN FUEL & LIGHT CO (WPCS)MANITOWOC
- WPSC TWO RIVERS MGPTWO RIVERS