Henderson, KY
Transparent derived index from EPA TRI / SDWIS / Superfund extracts: not an official EPA rating. Fixed caps: facilities ≤25 pts (50+ = max), log10 releases ≤25 pts, Superfund ≤25 pts (5/site), health-violation systems ≤15 pts (3/system), high-chemical facilities ≤10 pts. Bands: High ≥60, Moderate ≥30. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against other tracked counties rather than against these fixed caps.
Environmental data for Henderson in Kentucky · Population: 44,493
TRI sites such as Century Aluminum Sebree LLC; Big Rivers Electric Corp Reid/green/hmp&l Station II; Brenntag Mid-South Inc.; SDWIS systems such as HENDERSON WATER UTILITY/NORTH; HENDERSON WATER UTILITY/SOUTH anchor Henderson, KY's EPA extract. Derived burden score 38/100 (Moderate Risk) uses fixed national caps on density, log release volume, Superfund count, and health-flagged systems - not an official EPA rating.
Century Aluminum Sebree LLC; Big Rivers Electric Corp Reid/green/hmp&l Station II; Brenntag Mid-South Inc. are among the largest Form R filers reporting in Henderson; no SDWIS system here carries an active health-based flag. No AQS county monitors report here.
Burden score 38/100 (Moderate Risk) is the only weighted composite on this page. The tables below list every TRI facility, SDWIS system, and Superfund site EPA has on record for Henderson -- not just the names called out above -- reproducing the disclosure history as filed, not a current-safety verdict. Extract current as of 2026-08-25.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Henderson, KY: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
+6.0%
11 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
-11.0%
724.0 thousand lb → 644.7 thousand lb, every facility that filed
These two measures point in opposite directions. Releases from the facilities present in both years rose, while the inventory-wide total fell. The difference is which facilities filed, not a different estimate of the same plants.
Between the two reporting years, 1 facility filed for the first time and 1 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Henderson, KY's total reported releases rose from 608.0 thousand lb in 2022 to 644.2 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Henderson, KY's off-site transfers fell from 47.7 thousand lb in 2022 to 36.4 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Henderson, KY's chemicals reported fell from 33 in 2022 to 30 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Henderson, KY's air releases rose from 560.1 thousand lb in 2022 to 607.6 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Water Systems (2)
| System | System pop (SDWIS) | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| HENDERSON WATER UTILITY/NORTH | 31,705 | 0 |
| HENDERSON WATER UTILITY/SOUTH | 54 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (14)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Century Aluminum Sebree LLC | 2.9M lbs |
| 2 | Big Rivers Electric Corp Reid/green/hmp&l Station II | 2.6M lbs |
| 3 | Brenntag Mid-South Inc. | 91.3K lbs |
| 4 | Audubon Metals LLC | 72.0K lbs |
| 5 | Accuride Corp | 65.1K lbs |
| 6 | Tyson Chicken Inc. Processing & Rendering | 30.0K lbs |
| 7 | Teknor Color Company/teknor Pe Rformance Elastomers | 13.1K lbs |
| 8 | Gibbs Die Casting Corp | 10.3K lbs |
| 9 | Hydro Aluminum Metals USA LLC | 4.8K lbs |
| 10 | Eastern Alloys of Kentucky | 648 lbs |
| 11 | Amg Aluminum N.a. LLC | 539 lbs |
| 12 | Pratt Paper (ky) Llc/ Pratt (henderson Corrugating) LLC | 487 lbs |
| 13 | International Paper - Henderson Mill | 329 lbs |
| 14 | Shamrock Technologies | 0 lbs |
Cities in Henderson (2)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.