Racine County, WI
The federal environmental record for Racine County (population 196,613): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
23
TRI facilities
28
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunts Disposal Landfill | Caledonia | on the NPL | 07/22/1987 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Racine 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 Racine filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 62k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WISCONSIN PLATING WORKS - RACINE PLATING DIV | RACINE | Zinc compounds | 16k lb |
| FIBERTECH INC. | FRANKSVILLE | Styrene | 14k lb |
| QUAD/GRAPHICS COMMERCIAL & SPECIALTY LLC | BURLINGTON | Certain glycol ethers | 10k lb |
| AMERICAN ROLLER CO LLC | UNION GROVE | Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | 8k lb |
| MERZ N.A. INC. | STURTEVANT | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 4k lb |
| AVIDITY SCIENCE LLC | WATERFORD | Chromium, Nickel | 4k lb |
| SPECIALTY TAPES LLC | FRANKSVILLE | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 2k lb |
| EC STYBERG ENGINEERING CO | RACINE | Methanol | 626 lb |
| LAVELLE INDUSTRIES INC. | BURLINGTON | Zinc compounds | 605 lb |
| ARDAGH GLASS INC | BURLINGTON | Lead And Lead Compounds | 532 lb |
| APPLIED MATERIAL SOLUTIONS | BURLINGTON | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Formaldehyde | 510 lb |
| INSINKERATOR LLC | RACINE | Manganese, Chromium | 216 lb |
| S.C. JOHNSON & SON INC. WAXDALE FACILITY | STURTEVANT | Certain glycol ethers | 114 lb |
| PREMIER ALUMINUM LLC | RACINE | Copper, Lead | 77 lb |
| CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLC | STURTEVANT | Manganese compounds, Copper compounds | 34 lb |
| CSL | FRANKSVILLE | Ammonia | 30 lb |
| QUICK CABLE CORP | FRANKSVILLE | Copper, Lead | 14 lb |
| A & E INC | RACINE | Lead | 7 lb |
| TWIN DISC INC | RACINE | Diisocyanates | 5 lb |
| THERMAL TRANSFER PRODUCTS | RACINE | Copper | 1 lb |
| REGAL BELOIT AMERICA INC/GROVE GEAR | UNION GROVE | - | 0 lb |
| BADGER METER RACINE | RACINE | Copper | 0 lb |
| ENGENDREN LLC | FRANKSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 767 tank facilities in Racine: 331 tanks in service and 1,826 closed. 579 fuel releases are on record, of which 28 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Racine 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 Racine, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CALEDONIA GROUNDWATER MOLYBDENUM CONTAMINATIONCALEDONIA
- HUNTS DISPOSAL LANDFILLCALEDONIA