EPA TRI Facility · Electrical Equipment
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey
Edison, NJ
- Total releases
- 87 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 4
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey: how the 104 lbs splits
104 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 104 lbs 100.0%
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey's 104 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Copper And Copper Compounds.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Edison, NJ, in the electrical equipment sector. It reported 17 lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2024, and 87 lbs in total across its 2019-2024 reporting years. That ranks 16,698 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In New Jersey's 327 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey is pounds #248 and chemical-count #103 at 87 lbs. Phillips 66 Co-Bayway Refinery leads reported pounds (16.1M lbs) at 39 chemicals (chemical-count #2). US Army Picatinny Arsenal leads chemical count at 42 chemicals (9.0K lbs, pounds #130). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corp; Tec Edison LLC; Vibrantz Corp; Wesco Hmb Inc.. Similar-scale Electrical Equipment peers outside New Jersey: C&d Technologies Standby Power Division-Keefe Facility; Electric Motion Co Inc.; Rockwell Automation; Nidec Motor Corp. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Copper And Copper Compounds; Antimony And Antimony Compounds; Copper compounds; Antimony compounds.
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 4 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 87 lbs (2019–2024). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include C&d Technologies Standby Power Division-Keefe Facility and Electric Motion Co Inc..
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
87 lbs 36th percentile higher than 36% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey in the Electrical Equipment sector extract
Among the 566 Electrical Equipment facilities in this database, Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey reports the 352nd-largest volume (87 lbs). Scale peers outside New Jersey include C&d Technologies Standby Power Division-Keefe Facility and Electric Motion Co Inc..
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 104 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2024, total releases decreased by 8% (19 lbs to 17 lbs).
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2024
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
- 2024 0
What this shows Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 8% from 2019 to 2024). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Copper And Copper Compounds.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19 lbs | 2 |
| 2020 | 19 lbs | 2 |
| 2021 | 19 lbs | 2 |
| 2022 | 16 lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 14 lbs | 2 |
| 2024 | 17 lbs | 2 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2024). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Copper And Copper Compounds | 54 lbs | - |
| Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 31 lbs | - |
| Copper compounds | 12 lbs | - |
| Antimony compounds | 7 lbs | - |
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey · AIR-pathway site
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Similar Electrical Equipment Facilities
Other Electrical Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside New Jersey - e.g. C&d Technologies Standby Power Division-Keefe Facility, Electric Motion Co Inc., Rockwell Automation.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Copper And Copper Compounds, Antimony And Antimony Compounds, Copper compounds, Antimony compounds; nearby reporters include Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corp. Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
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This Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CLEAN · lead Copper And Copper Compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Edison, NJ, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2024 (6 years). NAICS 335929 · Electrical Equipment. 0.0% of Middlesex TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: National Ready Mix Concrete Co . (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Colonial Wire & Cable of New Jersey stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Copper And Copper Compounds. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov