Oconto County, WI
The federal environmental record for Oconto County (population 39,775): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
7
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Oconto 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)
6 facilities in Oconto filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 50k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| KCS INTERNATIONAL INC CRUISERS YACHTS DIV PLANT 1 | OCONTO | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 32k lb |
| BELGIOIOSO - CHASE | PULASKI | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 12k lb |
| CARFAIR COMPOSITES USA INC - GILLETT | GILLETT | Styrene | 3k lb |
| ST PAPER-OCONTO FALLS | OCONTO FALLS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead compounds | 2k lb |
| KCS INTERNATIONAL INC CRUISERS YACHTS DIV PLANT 2 | OCONTO | Styrene | 625 lb |
| SAPUTO CHEESE USA INC | LENA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 387 tank facilities in Oconto: 126 tanks in service and 725 closed. 128 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Oconto 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 Oconto, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BINDER LAKE DUMP SITE/NICOLET NAT' FORESLAKEWOOD
- COUNTY TRUNK HIGHWAY 'T' SITE/NICOLET NADOTY, TOWNSHIP OF
- FORMER CROOKED LAKE DUMP SITE/NICOLET NARIVERVIEW
- GIESEOCONTO FALLS
- ISLAND LAKE SITE/NICOLET NATIONAL FORESTLAKEWOOD
- ISLAND LAKE SITE/NICOLET NATIONAL FORESTLAKEWOOD
- PAYA LAKE DUMP/NICOLET NATIONAL FORESTRIVERVIEW TOWNSHIP