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Kentucky environmental disclosure record

According to EPA's 2023 Toxics Release Inventory, Safe Drinking Water Information System, and Superfund National Priorities List extracts, this is Kentucky's full public registry profile, toxic releases, drinking-water systems, and Superfund sites in one place.

TRI facilities
489
Reported releases
212.2M lbs
#22 of 56
Water systems
375
Superfund NPL sites
20

Kentucky vs. every U.S. state

Cumulative TRI-reported release pounds, with this state marked in the national distribution

212M lbs Top 39% higher than 61% of 56 states with TRI reporters

This state 0 lbs 2B+ lbs every state with TRI reporters, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $1M-wide band; taller bars hold more states with TRI reporters. The dashed line and filled bar mark this facility. Hover, focus, or tap a bar for its full count, share, and position.

Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year

KY regulatory profile by statute

Violation/site counts mapped to the EPA statutes this portal tracks

records

What this shows Counts are mapped to statute as a structural proxy and reflect reported activity, not toxicity-weighted or population-adjusted risk. Clean Air Act (Title V) permit data is not currently ingested by this portal, so air-permit compliance is not shown here.

Source EPA SDWIS / Superfund

How Kentucky compares across two EPA disclosure measures

The highlighted point is Kentucky. The vertical axis is the share of tracked water systems with at least one health-based SDWIS record; the horizontal axis is TRI-reported pounds per facility on a logarithmic scale so the full state distribution stays readable. The crosshairs use the portal’s published national benchmark medians.

EPA disclosure intensity across states with both TRI facilities and water-system records 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 56 entities by TRI release intensity (log₁₀ lbs per facility) (X) and Water systems with a health-based record (%) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Higher release / higher record shareLower release / higher record shareHigher release / lower record shareLower release / lower record share 3456789 020406080100 TRI release intensity (log₁₀ lbs per facility) Water systems with a health-based record (%) KY highlighted Kentucky
EPA disclosure intensity across states with both TRI facilities and water-system records

This matrix compares disclosure rates, not toxicity, exposure, current compliance, or drinking-water safety. A lower position on either axis is not a safety rating; use the underlying facility and water-system records for context.

According to EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL extracts, Kentucky (KY) lists 489 TRI-reporting facilities disclosing 212.2M lbs of toxic releases. The same extracts list 20 Superfund sites and 375 EPA-regulated water systems, of which 195 carry health-based SDWIS violation rows. PlainEnviro's composite environmental health score for Kentucky is 43/100 (grade F), benchmarked against all U.S. states on chemical release intensity, drinking-water health violations, Superfund site burden, and water violation rate. This is a percentile-derived composite from federal disclosure counts, not a clinical health-risk assessment.

F 43

Kentucky Environmental Health Score

A percentile-benchmarked 0–100 composite from 4 EPA federal datasets, with weight redistribution for any unavailable dimension

4/4 dimensions · percentile-benchmarked

Chemical Release Intensity F 55
434K (lbs per facility)
Drinking Water Health Violations F 35
52.0% (% of systems)
Superfund Site Burden F 34
4.1 (sites per 100 facilities)
Water Violation Rate F 46
5.0 (violations per system)

Benchmarks derived from EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL extracts across all 56 U.S. states and territories

TRI Facilities

489

Very high

Water Systems

375

Low

Superfund Sites

20

Moderate

Total Releases

212.2M lbs

Very high

Compliance Snapshot - KY

Sites with no recorded health violations 77.4%
Sites with at least one open violation 22.6%

Kentucky's profile joins three independently maintained EPA programs into one statewide record: the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI, EPCRA Section 313 industrial disclosures), the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS, Safe Drinking Water Act compliance), and the Superfund National Priorities List. Each program uses its own reporting cadence and facility-identification scheme; PlainEnviro joins them by matched facility and system location rather than a shared federal ID, so a site absent from one program is never assumed absent from another. The counts below reflect the portal's rebuild as of August 2026.

Activity clusters in counties such as Jefferson, Boone, Warren, which account for the highest combined facility, water-system, and Superfund presence. Monitoring and reporting violations are not included in the SDWIS counts shown here.

Every figure reflects the public regulatory record as filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and is not weighted for toxicity, geographic footprint, or population exposure. A state can rank high in any individual metric because of industrial history, naturally occurring contaminants in source water, or simply the number of reporting facilities, not because current residents face unsafe conditions. Drill into any county or water system below for the full disclosure record.

What does this state's environmental record show?

TRI Facilities
489
Water Systems
375
Superfund Sites
20
Health-Based Violation Records
1,864
Total Releases
212.2M lbs
cumulative, all reported years
Systems with Records
195
water systems

Release-over-release change

What changed for Kentucky: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year

2022 → 2023

Same facilities, both years

-11.6%

395 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023

Whole inventory

-13.5%

41.2 million lb → 35.6 million lb, every facility that filed

Between the two reporting years, 12 facilities filed for the first time and 26 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.

  • Kentucky's total reported releases fell from 40.2 million lb in 2022 to 35.6 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
  • Kentucky's water releases fell from 6.8 million lb in 2022 to 5.4 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
  • Kentucky's air releases fell from 14.7 million lb in 2022 to 12.7 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
  • Kentucky's land releases fell from 9.8 million lb in 2022 to 9.0 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.

Largest Polluters

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# Facility Total Releases
1 North American Stainless 35.2M lbs
2 Kentucky Utilities Co Ghent Station 12.4M lbs
3 U.S. Tva Shawnee Fossil Plant 10.9M lbs
4 Big Rivers Electric Corp. Wilson Station 10.2M lbs
5 Spurlock Power Station 8.4M lbs
6 Perdue Foods LLC - Cromwell Processing Plant 6.8M lbs
7 Phoenix Paper Wickliffe LLC 6.4M lbs
8 Louisville Gas & Electric Co. - Trimble County Station 6.2M lbs
9 Louisville Gas & Electric Co. - Mill Creek Station 5.8M lbs
10 Enersys Delaware Inc. 5.7M lbs
11 Duke Energy Kentucky Inc. East Bend Generating Station 4.1M lbs
12 Real Alloy Recycling LLC 3.9M lbs
13 Domtar Paper Co LLC Hawesville Mill 3.9M lbs
14 Agc Flat Glass N America Inc 3.7M lbs
15 Sekisui Specialty Chemicals America LLC 3.7M lbs
16 Clariant Corp 12TH Street Facility 3.3M lbs
17 Century Aluminum of Kentucky 3.0M lbs
18 Dow Silicones Corp 3.0M lbs
19 Ahlstrom Filtration LLC 3.0M lbs
20 Century Aluminum Sebree LLC 2.9M lbs
21 Kowa Kentucky Inc. 2.9M lbs
22 US Army Fort Campbell 2.9M lbs
23 Big Rivers Electric Corp Reid/green/hmp&l Station II 2.6M lbs
24 Chemours Louisville Plant 2.5M lbs
25 Westlake Vinyls Inc 2.2M lbs
26 Pilgrims Pride Corp Mayfield Ky Facility 2.0M lbs
27 Nucor Steel Gallatin LLC 1.9M lbs
28 Ford Motor Co Kentucky Truck Plant 1.9M lbs
29 Logan Aluminum Inc 1.8M lbs
30 American Synthetic Rubber Co 1.8M lbs
31 Daramic LLC 1.8M lbs
32 Kimberly-Clark Corp Owensboro Operations 1.6M lbs
33 Catlettsburg Refining LLC 1.5M lbs
34 Dyno Nobel Inc 1.4M lbs
35 Isp Chemicals LLC 1.4M lbs
36 Clariant Corp Crittenden Drive Facility 1.4M lbs
37 U.S. Tva Paradise Combined Cycle 1.3M lbs
38 Kentucky Utilities Co. - E. W. Brown Station 1.2M lbs
39 Bakelite Synthetics 1.2M lbs
40 US Army Garrison Fort Knox 1.1M lbs
41 Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky 1.1M lbs
42 Arkema Inc 1.1M lbs
43 The Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp - Grayson 1.0M lbs
44 Owensboro Grain Co LLC 980.1K lbs
45 Westlake Vinyls Inc. - Pvc Plant 866.5K lbs
46 Novelis 861.7K lbs
47 Owensboro Municipal Utilities Elmer Smith Station 849.9K lbs
48 Pregis Innovative Packaging Inc 825.2K lbs
49 Evonik Corp 737.0K lbs
50 Safety-Kleen Systems Inc. 725.8K lbs
51 Commonwealth Rolled Products Inc 684.9K lbs
52 Monument Chemical Kentucky LLC 656.7K lbs
53 Treehouse Foods 638.2K lbs
54 Bowling Green Metalforming 570.6K lbs
55 General Motors LLC Bowling Green Assembly Plant 563.0K lbs
56 Minova USA Inc. 514.1K lbs
57 Keystone Foods 503.7K lbs
58 Wacker Chemical Corp Polymers Div 494.3K lbs
59 Corning Inc 476.9K lbs
60 Ford Louisville Assembly 461.3K lbs
61 Republic Conduit Manufacturing 458.9K lbs
62 Akebono Brake Corp-Glasgow 455.3K lbs
63 Avantor Performance Materials 428.8K lbs
64 Cc Metals & Alloys LLC 423.9K lbs
65 Metalsa Light Vehilcle USA - Elizabethtown 411.9K lbs
66 Carmeuse Lime & Stone Black River Facility 405.7K lbs
67 Akebono - Elizabethtown Plant 372.3K lbs
68 US Army Blue Grass Army Depot 367.8K lbs
69 Metalsa Sa de Cv 366.6K lbs
70 Louisville Packaging 323.8K lbs
71 Carmeuse Lime & Stone Maysville Facility 315.2K lbs
72 Darling Ingredients Inc. 307.5K lbs
73 Superior Composites Co LLC 306.7K lbs
74 Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products LLC 305.5K lbs
75 Arcosa Marine Products Inc Plt 1245 301.0K lbs
76 Zeon Chemicals LP 294.1K lbs
77 Felker Brothers 286.4K lbs
78 Allnex USA Inc. 282.7K lbs
79 Greif Packaging LLC 270.5K lbs
80 Jlok Corp 270.1K lbs
81 Aarhuskarlshamn Aak 268.8K lbs
82 Dart Polymers Inc 259.8K lbs
83 Schneider Electric USA Inc 252.2K lbs
84 Mubea Inc 251.8K lbs
85 Eckart America Corp 248.7K lbs
86 Sun Pools Inc. 237.3K lbs
87 Vanderbilt Chemicals Llc-Murray Div 230.4K lbs
88 Guardian Automotive - Morehead Plant 227.5K lbs
89 Lyons East 221.8K lbs
90 American Howa Kentucky Inc. 215.1K lbs
91 General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 69 208.4K lbs
92 Cardinal Aluminum Co Plant 3 206.8K lbs
93 Beneke Wire Co 198.9K lbs
94 Bando USA Inc 198.7K lbs
95 Owl's Head Alloys Inc. 198.4K lbs
96 Trace Die Cast Inc 197.1K lbs
97 Central Kentucky Processing Inc 183.1K lbs
98 Eagle Manufacturing LLC 178.7K lbs
99 Rohm & Haas - Louisville Plant 171.5K lbs
100 Sherwin-Williams Co 167.7K lbs
101 Hitachi Astemo Americas Inc. - Berea Ky 165.2K lbs
102 Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc 159.8K lbs
103 Braking Products Group US LLC 158.3K lbs
104 Creative Liquid Coatings 150.5K lbs
105 Kosmos Cement Co LLC 141.5K lbs
106 Saputo Cheese USA Inc. 141.2K lbs
107 Manchester Tank & Equipment Co 137.1K lbs
108 Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc 130.0K lbs
109 Covalence Adhesives 129.1K lbs
110 3M Co - Cynthiana 123.7K lbs
111 Fritz Winter 121.6K lbs
112 Amfine Chemical Corp 120.5K lbs
113 Calgon Carbon Corp 120.4K lbs
114 Cabinetworks Group Mt. Sterling 118.3K lbs
115 Tri-State Plating Inc 116.1K lbs
116 Dupont Louisville Plant 114.4K lbs
117 Estron Chemicals Inc 112.7K lbs
118 John S Cooper Power Station 112.2K lbs
119 Gotec Plus Sun LLC 111.5K lbs
120 Interplastic Corp-Fort Wright 111.3K lbs
121 Muhlenberg County Coal Resources Inc. 110.0K lbs
122 Eurofins Mwg Operon LLC 106.2K lbs
123 Sherwin-Williams Co 104.2K lbs
124 Nemak Glasgow Plant #1 103.5K lbs
125 Owensboro Grain Biodiesel LLC 100.2K lbs
126 Russellville Engineered Castings Inc 99.4K lbs
127 Mouser Cabinetry LLC 97.3K lbs
128 Cta Acoustics Inc 94.4K lbs
129 Darling Ingredients Inc. 93.3K lbs
130 Catalent Pharma Solutions 92.1K lbs
131 Brenntag Mid-South Inc. 91.3K lbs
132 Pmc Organometallix Inc. 90.6K lbs
133 Leggett & Platt Inc 83.2K lbs
134 Dow Silicones Corp 80.3K lbs
135 Swift & Co 78.0K lbs
136 Cooper Standard Automotive 77.2K lbs
137 Okonite Co Inc 77.1K lbs
138 Fervalue USA Inc. - Louisville Bakery 75.4K lbs
139 Audubon Metals LLC 72.0K lbs
140 New Dairy Kentucky LLC 70.6K lbs
141 Nashville Wire Products 69.3K lbs
142 Crown Cork & Seal Co USA Inc. 67.6K lbs
143 Superior Industrial Solutions Inc. 67.5K lbs
144 Accuride Corp 65.1K lbs
145 Grupo Antolin Kentucky 62.0K lbs
146 Lord Corp 61.8K lbs
147 Precoat Metals 61.5K lbs
148 Cabot Corp 60.6K lbs
149 Aristech Surfaces LLC 58.1K lbs
150 Toyo Automotive Parts (usa) Inc 58.0K lbs
151 Bluegrass Dairy & Food Inc 56.1K lbs
152 Matalco Shelbyville LLC 55.1K lbs
153 Owensboro Specialty Polymers Inc 52.7K lbs
154 A O Smith Corp Protective Coatings Div 52.5K lbs
155 Pella Corp - Murray Operations 48.6K lbs
156 U S Smokeless Tobacco Co 48.6K lbs
157 Kentucky Trailer Paint 46.8K lbs
158 Curtis-Maruyasu America Inc 46.7K lbs
159 Ingevity Virginia Corp-Wickliffe Carbon Plant 45.6K lbs
160 Altuglas Louisville Plant 44.0K lbs
161 N.o.f. - Fordsville 43.6K lbs
162 3A Composites USA Inc 43.0K lbs
163 U S Smokeless Tobacco Co Eagle One 42.7K lbs
164 Phoenix Fabricators & Erectors Inc 42.5K lbs
165 Stupp Bridge Co 42.4K lbs
166 Koch Filter Corp 39.9K lbs
167 Valor LLC 39.8K lbs
168 Faurecia Interior Systems 39.2K lbs
169 Jim Beam Brands Co. -Booker Noe Plant 38.8K lbs
170 Plymouth Engineered Shapes 37.7K lbs
171 Ykk (u.s.a.) Inc. Snap & Button Products 36.4K lbs
172 Sfc Global Supply Chain Inc. Florence Ky 36.2K lbs
173 US Doe Paducah Site 36.2K lbs
174 Central Motor Wheel of America (dba Cmwa) 36.0K lbs
175 Alltech Inc 34.4K lbs
176 Hausner Hard-Chrome of Kentucky 34.4K lbs
177 Tokai Carbon Ge LLC 34.1K lbs
178 Crane Composites Inc. 30.2K lbs
179 Tyson Chicken Inc. Processing & Rendering 30.0K lbs
180 Daicel Safety Systems Americas Inc 29.8K lbs
181 Stoody Company 28.0K lbs
182 Morganfield Adhesive Plant 28.0K lbs
183 Vesuvius USA - Wurtland Plant 27.6K lbs
184 Nestle Prepared Foods Co 27.4K lbs
185 Modern Welding Co of Owensboro Inc 27.1K lbs
186 American Bluegrass Marble Co Inc 25.4K lbs
187 Nucor Steel Brandenburg 24.8K lbs
188 Welding Alloys USA Inc 24.8K lbs
189 Mplx Terminals LLC - Louisville Algon Ky Terminal 24.3K lbs
190 Robert Bosch Automotive Steering LLC 23.3K lbs
191 Matalco Kentucky LLC 21.8K lbs
192 Carpenter Co. 21.4K lbs
193 Kodi Collective / Danville 21.4K lbs
194 Segepo-Fsm Inc. 20.4K lbs
195 Nexpera Wurtland Plant 20.2K lbs
196 Southern Graphic Systems LLC 19.4K lbs
197 Green Tokai Co - Maysville 18.6K lbs
198 Inoac Group N.a. LLC 18.5K lbs
199 Hunter Douglas 18.2K lbs
200 Mplx Terminals LLC - Louisville Kramers Ky Terminal 18.1K lbs
201 Ge Appliances a Haier Co - Appliance Park 17.9K lbs
202 Kentucky Chrome Works 17.8K lbs
203 Hines Precision Inc. 17.4K lbs
204 Wabash 17.2K lbs
205 Koppers Inc (guthrie) 16.7K lbs
206 Florida Tile Inc 14.0K lbs
207 Teknor Color Company/teknor Pe Rformance Elastomers 13.1K lbs
208 Harbisonwalker International Inc 13.1K lbs
209 Mtd Consumer Group Inc - Leitchfield Facility 13.0K lbs
210 Libertas Copper Llc. 13.0K lbs
211 Stella-Jones Corp 12.7K lbs
212 Contech Engineered Solutions LLC 12.6K lbs
213 Murakami Manufacturing USA Inc. 12.6K lbs
214 Basf Corp 12.0K lbs
215 American Howa of Kentucky Georgetown 11.8K lbs
216 Hendrickson Trailer Suspension Systems 11.6K lbs
217 Valor LLC 11.2K lbs
218 Npr of America Corp 10.8K lbs
219 Byk USA Inc. 10.7K lbs
220 International Crankshaft Inc. 10.7K lbs
221 Gibbs Die Casting Corp 10.3K lbs
222 Federal Medical Center Lexington 10.1K lbs
223 Mplx Terminals LLC - Lexington Ky Terminal 9.8K lbs
224 Azz Galvanizing Services-Louisville 9.4K lbs
225 Itw Commercial Construction N.a. 9.4K lbs
226 Kentucky Smelting Technology 9.3K lbs
227 Marcus Paint Co 9.3K lbs
228 Topy America Inc 8.8K lbs
229 Camco Chemical Co. Inc. 8.7K lbs
230 Benda-Lutz Corp 8.6K lbs
231 US Army National Guard Wendell Ford Training Center Ranges 8.1K lbs
232 Cytech Products Inc 7.8K lbs
233 Forth Technologies Inc 7.7K lbs
234 Mplx Terminals LLC - Covington Ky Terminal 7.6K lbs
235 Magni Industries Inc 7.5K lbs
236 Celanese Engineered Materials 7.4K lbs
237 Intelligrated Systems LLC 7.0K lbs
238 Cobb-Vantress Inc - Feed Mill 7.0K lbs
239 Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Co 6.9K lbs
240 Lakestone Enterprises (dba Camcoat) 6.8K lbs
241 Jsc Terminal LLC (dba Midwest Terminal) 6.8K lbs
242 Bekaert Corp 6.6K lbs
243 Mitsui Kinzoku Catalysts America Inc 6.3K lbs
244 Siloam Ngl Facility 6.0K lbs
245 Safran Landing Systems Kentucky LLC 5.9K lbs
246 Louisville Seating Systems 5.9K lbs
247 Metalsa Structural Products Inc. 5.8K lbs
248 Huntington Alloys Corp 5.8K lbs
249 Meritor Heavy Braking Systems LLC 5.7K lbs
250 Kentucky Land Resources Inc 5.6K lbs
251 Ak Steel Corp 5.6K lbs
252 Toyota Boshoku Kentucky L.L.C. - Bardstown 5.5K lbs
253 McCreary US Penitentary 5.3K lbs
254 Lsc Communications / Glasgow 5.3K lbs
255 Lakestone Enterprises (dba Camcoat) 5.2K lbs
256 Mplx Terminals LLC - Paducah Ky Terminal 5.2K lbs
257 Federal Bureau of Prisons Usp Big Sandy 5.2K lbs
258 Emerson Electric Co 5.1K lbs
259 Hydro Aluminum Metals USA LLC 4.8K lbs
260 Chromascape Inc. 4.5K lbs
261 Decoart Inc 4.5K lbs
262 Ge Aerospace 4.4K lbs
263 Ennis Flint - Paris 4.3K lbs
264 Pilkington Na Inc 4.0K lbs
265 Valero Louisville Terminal 4.0K lbs
266 Toyotomi America Corp 3.8K lbs
267 Winchester Farms Dairy 3.7K lbs
268 Greenfield Global USA Inc. 3.7K lbs
269 Accent Marble Inc. 3.6K lbs
270 Carrier Vibrating Equipment 3.5K lbs
271 Faurecia Exhaust Systems Inc Louisville Plant 3.3K lbs
272 Fci Manchester 3.0K lbs
273 Aisin Automotive Casting LLC 3.0K lbs
274 Cone Louisville LLC 3.0K lbs
275 Kingsford Manufacturing Co 3.0K lbs
276 Aichi Forge USA Inc 2.9K lbs
277 American Fuji Seal 2.9K lbs
278 Russtech Admixtures Inc 2.9K lbs
279 Precision Machine Inc 2.8K lbs
280 Astemo Americas Inc-Hk 2.6K lbs
281 Superior Battery Manufacturing Co Inc. 2.4K lbs
282 Hyster Yale Materials Handling Inc. 2.3K lbs
283 The Pittsburgh Paints Co. 2.3K lbs
284 Douglas Autotech Corp 2.3K lbs
285 Key Oil Co Mount Sterling Bulk Plant 2.3K lbs
286 Bodycote - Winchester 2.2K lbs
287 Prysmian Cables & Systems USA LLC 2.1K lbs
288 Webasto Roof Systems Inc 2.0K lbs
289 O'Neal Manufacturing Services 2.0K lbs
290 56986 - Joy Global Underground Mining LLC 2.0K lbs
291 Bae Systems 2.0K lbs
292 Misa Metal Fabricating Inc 1.9K lbs
293 Commonwealth Agri-Energy LLC 1.8K lbs
294 International Paper 1.8K lbs
295 Toyota Boshoku Kentucky - Lebanon 1.8K lbs
296 Biorigin/ptx Food Corp 1.8K lbs
297 Four O Corp 1.7K lbs
298 Kenamerican Resources Inc 1.7K lbs
299 Firestone Industrial Products 1.6K lbs
300 Federal Correctional Institution Ashland Ky 1.6K lbs
301 Pan Oston Co 1.5K lbs
302 Diversified Structural Composites 1.5K lbs
303 Meyer Tool Inc 1.5K lbs
304 Flint Cps Inks N.a. LLC 1.5K lbs
305 Zeochem LLC 1.3K lbs
306 Kingsford Manufacturing Co 1.3K lbs
307 Continental Refining Co LLC 1.2K lbs
308 Zschimmer & Schwarz Interpolymer 1.2K lbs
309 Marathon Petroleum Co - Kuttawa Ky Terminal 1.2K lbs
310 Ledvance LLC 1.1K lbs
311 E. Kentucky Power Corp. - J.k. Smith Power Station 1.1K lbs
312 Wyman Gordon Co 1.1K lbs
313 Yokohama Industries Americas Inc 1.0K lbs
314 Givaudan Flavors Corp 1.0K lbs
315 Tower Automotive 1.0K lbs
316 Sargent & Greenleaf 991 lbs
317 Andrews Laser Works 983 lbs
318 Nelson Brothers LLC 900 lbs
319 Felker Brothers Corp. Plant 2 868 lbs
320 Iofina Chemical Inc. 855 lbs
321 Certainteed Gypsum Silver Grove LLC 699 lbs
322 Chevron Louisville Terminal/lubricants Blend Plant 665 lbs
323 Ge Vernova 664 lbs
324 Eastern Alloys of Kentucky 648 lbs
325 Western Kentucky Resources LLC - Equality Barge Loader 616 lbs
326 Best Sanitizers Inc 541 lbs
327 Amg Aluminum N.a. LLC 539 lbs
328 McHenry Brass Inc 536 lbs
329 Altec Industries Inc 531 lbs
330 Pinkerton Tobacco Co LP 530 lbs
331 Boge Rubber & Plastics USA LLC 525 lbs
332 Pratt Paper (ky) Llc/ Pratt (henderson Corrugating) LLC 487 lbs
333 Ugn Inc. 484 lbs
334 Clarios LLC 484 lbs
335 Tower Automotive 470 lbs
336 Toyotetsu Mid America 461 lbs
337 Marathon Petroleum Co - Louisville Cane Run Terminal 448 lbs
338 Arvin Sango Inc 438 lbs
339 Wald LLC 429 lbs
340 Esco Group LLC 363 lbs
341 Hayashi Telempu Na 332 lbs
342 International Paper - Henderson Mill 329 lbs
343 Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems Inc 320 lbs
344 Langley Gas Plant 303 lbs
345 Ipsco Tubulars (kentucky) Inc 293 lbs
346 Agc Automotive Americas 291 lbs
347 O'Neal Manufacturing Services 269 lbs
348 Sister Schubert's Homemade Rolls Inc 250 lbs
349 A Stucki Co D/b/a Stucki Roller Bearing 227 lbs
350 Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems Kentucky Corp 218 lbs
351 Hinkle Contracting Co LLC - Bowen Asphalt Plant & Natural Br 200 lbs
352 Diversey 199 lbs
353 Cymetech Corp. 195 lbs
354 Henkel US Operations Corp 183 lbs
355 Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC 177 lbs
356 Trane Technologies 174 lbs
357 Inoac Packaging Group 173 lbs
358 Trad Na Inc 167 lbs
359 Carbide Industries LLC 167 lbs
360 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC 158 lbs
361 Hinkle Contracting Co LLC - Somerset Asphalt & Somerset Ston 144 lbs
362 Nemak; Glasgow Plant #2 132 lbs
363 Portland Forge 126 lbs
364 3M Technical Ceramics 120 lbs
365 Hendrickson Truck Suspension Systems 119 lbs
366 Hinkle Contracting Co LLC - Pomp Asphalt & Cave Run Mine 117 lbs
367 Great Southern Wood - Ky Inc. 115 lbs
368 Ledvance LLC 114 lbs
369 Link-Belt Cranes L.P. Lllp a Delaware Ltd Liability L 114 lbs
370 Certainteed Gypsum Carrollton LLC 111 lbs
371 Fort Dearborn Co 92 lbs
372 Emhart Teknologies 87 lbs
373 Nhk Spring Precision of America 78 lbs
374 Adient Georgetown 75 lbs
375 M-I LLC Sweco Div 75 lbs
376 Briggs & Stratton Corp 72 lbs
377 Southwire Co Kentucky Plant 59 lbs
378 Franklin Precision Industry 56 lbs
379 Angell-Demmel Na 51 lbs
380 Prestress Services Industries Llc-Lexington Branch 49 lbs
381 Donaldson Co Inc 42 lbs
382 Dal-Tile Corp Lewisport Plant 42 lbs
383 Katayama American Co. Inc. 40 lbs
384 Holcim Solutions & Products 40 lbs
385 Dana Sealing Manufacturing LLC 39 lbs
386 Cardinal Aluminum Co Plant 1 31 lbs
387 Bilstein Cold Rolled Steel LP 26 lbs
388 Kentucky Solite Corp 26 lbs
389 Hennessy Industries Inc Bada Div 25 lbs
390 Geon Performance Solutions 22 lbs
391 Sika Automotive Kentucky LLC 22 lbs
392 Ahf Products 21 lbs
393 Safety-Kleen Systems Louisville (lou) 21 lbs
394 Jackson Wws Inc 18 lbs
395 Bluegrass Generating Station 14 lbs
396 Dawkins On-Site. LLC - Nucor Kentucky Portable 13 lbs
397 General Equipment & Manufacturing Co Inc 11 lbs
398 Toyotetsu America Inc 10 lbs
399 Applegate Fiber South 6 lbs
400 Oldcastle Precast Inc 6 lbs
401 Novelis 5 lbs
402 Carrier Corp - Franklin 5 lbs
403 Constellium Bowling Green 4 lbs
404 Greenheck Fan Corp - Kentucky 2 lbs
405 Safety-Kleen Systems Lexington (lek) 2 lbs
406 Sealmaster 1 lbs
407 Neo Industries (kentucky) Inc. 1 lbs
408 Marathon Petroleum Co - Big Sandy Asphalt Terminal 1 lbs
409 Motor Wheel LLC 1 lbs
410 Ronan Engineering Co 1 lbs
411 Electro Cycle Inc. 1 lbs
412 Stanley Black & Decker 1 lbs
413 Denyo Manufacturing Corp 1 lbs
414 Ingersoll Rand Campbellsville Operations 0 lbs
415 Kelvion Products Inc. - Burkesville 0 lbs
416 Rapiscan Systems 0 lbs
417 Quikrete - Kentucky Plant 0 lbs
418 Forterra Concrete Industries Inc. - Louisville 0 lbs
419 Forterra Concrete Industries Inc - Lexington 0 lbs
420 Best Block - Paducah Ky Plant 0 lbs
421 Holley Performance Products 0 lbs
422 Forterra Concrete Industries Inc - Elizabethtown 0 lbs
423 Four O Corp 0 lbs
424 Steel Technologies LLC 0 lbs
425 Amcor Packaging Inc. 0 lbs
426 Sonoco Protective Solutions Inc 0 lbs
427 Vogt Ice LLC 0 lbs
428 Parallel Products of Kentucky 0 lbs
429 Reynolds Consumer Products LLC Louisville Foil Plant 0 lbs
430 Louisville Cooler Manufacturing Co 0 lbs
431 Caldwell Tanks Inc 0 lbs
432 Univar USA Inc 0 lbs
433 Cmc Rebar 0 lbs
434 Key Oil Company-Louisville Bulk Plant 0 lbs
435 Olympia Lumber & Post Inc 0 lbs
436 Alltech Inc. 0 lbs
437 Cti Foods 0 lbs
438 Cargill Feed & Nutrition Winchester 0 lbs
439 Apollo Oil - Winchester Valvoline Onsite 0 lbs
440 Itw Feg LLC Hobart Danville Div 0 lbs
441 Mikron Industries Inc 0 lbs
442 Richmond Auto Parts Technology 0 lbs
443 Obara Corp USA 0 lbs
444 Landmark Stone 0 lbs
445 Thussenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 0 lbs
446 Steel Technologies LLC 0 lbs
447 Ridley Block Operations 0 lbs
448 Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc. 0 lbs
449 Kustom Group 0 lbs
450 Action Petroleum Co Ltd 0 lbs
451 Worthington Cylinders Paducah 0 lbs
452 Trees N Trends 0 lbs
453 Airgas USA LLC 0 lbs
454 Insteel Wire Products 0 lbs
455 Atlas Equipment Services Inc.. 0 lbs
456 Pilgrim's Pride Corp Mayfield Ky. Feed Mill 0 lbs
457 Shiloh - Bowling Green 0 lbs
458 Keystone Foods 0 lbs
459 Key Oil Supply 0 lbs
460 Sumitomo Electric Wiring Syste Ms Inc 0 lbs
461 Champion Petfoods USA Inc 0 lbs
462 Freudenberg Hopkinsville Ky Site 0 lbs
463 Mssc-Us 0 lbs
464 Superior Graphite Co 0 lbs
465 Trad Na Inc 0 lbs
466 Hendrick Screen Co 0 lbs
467 Perdue Foods LLC - Livermore Feedmill 0 lbs
468 Hydro Gear 0 lbs
469 Tyson Chicken Inc. Feed Mill 0 lbs
470 Prairie Farms Dairy 0 lbs
471 T. Marzetti Co 0 lbs
472 Process Machinery Inc. 0 lbs
473 Tennant Co 0 lbs
474 Sonoco Protective Solutions Inc. 0 lbs
475 Plymouth Specialty Manufacturing LLC 0 lbs
476 Aaf Louisville Cartridge Plant 0 lbs
477 World Fuel Services London Bulk Plant 0 lbs
478 Cannon Automotive Solutions Inc. 0 lbs
479 Essity 0 lbs
480 Shamrock Technologies 0 lbs
481 Purem Novi Inc.- Louisville 0 lbs
482 Pleatco Llc. 0 lbs
483 World Fuel Services Florence Bulk Plant 0 lbs
484 Holley Performance 0 lbs
485 Nova Steel - New Facility 0 lbs
486 Llflex 0 lbs
487 Loreal USA 0 lbs
488 Tyson Processing Services Inc. 0 lbs
489 Twb Glasgow 0 lbs

Water Quality

Systems with Health Violations

Water System Population Violations
PROVIDENCE WATER WORKS 4,538 132
MOUNTAIN WATER DIST 44,057 80
UNION COUNTY WATER DISTRICT 6,117 58
SMITHLAND WATER & SEWER 989 53
EDMONSON CO WATER DISTRICT 17,848 50
MARTIN WATER DEPARTMENT 1,167 49
MARTIN CO WATER DISTRICT #1 9,003 49
REID VILLAGE WATER DISTRICT 2,545 46
SOUTHERN WATER & SEWER DISTRICT 15,110 41
HANSON WATER SYSTEM 2,157 41
UNIONTOWN WATER & SEWER DEPT 1,496 35
BIG SANDY WATER DISTRICT 13,044 33
LEWISBURG WATER WORKS 3,119 33
CALHOUN WATER WORKS 966 33
JENKINS WATER SYSTEM 2,609 31
NEW HAVEN MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS 1,357 26
STURGIS WATER WORKS 3,490 26
ALBANY WATER WORKS 9,042 24
DRAKESBORO WATER DEPARTMENT 888 24
JESSAMINE S ELKHORN WATER DIST 8,826 23

Cities with Water Issues

Superfund Sites (20)

Site Name Status HRS Score
A.L. Taylor (Valley of Drums) Deleted NPL Site 0.00
Airco Deleted NPL Site 33.29
B.F. Goodrich NPL Site 33.01
Brantley Landfill Deleted NPL Site 52.73
Caldwell Lace Leather Co., Inc. NPL Site 34.21
Distler Brickyard NPL Site 44.77
Distler Farm NPL Site 34.62
Fort Hartford Coal Co. Stone Quarry Deleted NPL Site 43.84
General Tire & Rubber Co. (Mayfield Landfill) Deleted NPL Site 32.94
Green River Disposal, Inc. NPL Site 29.12
Howe Valley Landfill Deleted NPL Site 36.73
Lee's Lane Landfill Deleted NPL Site 39.52
Maxey Flats Nuclear Disposal NPL Site 31.71
National Electric Coil Co./Cooper Industries NPL Site 50.00
National Southwire Aluminum Co. Deleted NPL Site 50.00
Newport Dump Deleted NPL Site 37.63
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (USDOE) NPL Site 56.95
Red Penn Sanitation Co. Landfill Deleted NPL Site 38.10
Smith's Farm NPL Site 32.69
Tri-City Disposal Co. NPL Site 33.82

Counties (118 total)

Showing top 20 counties by environmental activity. Kentucky has 118 counties total.

Cities with Environmental Records

Louisville
77 facilities · 2 water systems
Bowling Green
26 facilities · 4 water systems
Florence
22 facilities · 1 water systems
Owensboro
15 facilities · 2 water systems
Hopkinsville
14 facilities · 2 water systems
Lexington
12 facilities · 4 water systems
Calvert City
11 facilities · 1 water systems
Henderson
10 facilities · 3 water systems
Elizabethtown
10 facilities · 1 water systems
Franklin
9 facilities · 1 water systems
Glasgow
9 facilities · 1 water systems
Somerset
8 facilities · 3 water systems
Winchester
8 facilities · 2 water systems
Paducah
8 facilities · 1 water systems
Shelbyville
8 facilities · 1 water systems
Richmond
7 facilities · 3 water systems
Bardstown
7 facilities · 1 water systems
Frankfort
6 facilities · 4 water systems
Lebanon
6 facilities · 2 water systems
Versailles
6 facilities · 2 water systems

Frequently Asked Questions

How many TRI facilities are in Kentucky?
Kentucky has 489 facilities that report to the EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). These facilities have collectively reported 212.2M lbs in total toxic chemical releases. TRI data is self-reported annually by facilities that manufacture, process, or use listed toxic chemicals above threshold amounts.
Does Kentucky have Superfund sites?
Yes, Kentucky has 20 sites on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). Superfund sites are contaminated locations identified for long-term cleanup under the EPA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
What does EPA SDWIS list for drinking water in Kentucky?
Kentucky has 375 EPA-regulated water systems in the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) extract used here. 195 water systems have a health-based violation row (MCL exceedance) in this historical extract. A past registry row is not a current drinkability verdict. For current utility conditions, contact the local water utility or the Kentucky drinking water program. Source: EPA SDWIS.
What environmental data is available for Kentucky?
PlainEnviro provides three categories of EPA environmental data for Kentucky: Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data covering 489 industrial facilities, Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) data for 375 water systems, and Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) data for 20 contaminated sites.
How does Kentucky compare to other states on EPA disclosure counts?
Kentucky has 489 TRI facilities with 212.2M lbs in total releases, 20 Superfund sites, and 1,864 water system violations on record. These are federal disclosure counts; they are not toxicity-weighted or population-adjusted risk scores. Source: EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL databases.
What is Kentucky's environmental health score?
PlainEnviro's composite environmental health score for Kentucky is 43/100 (grade F). This score combines four percentile-benchmarked dimensions from EPA federal extracts: chemical release intensity per TRI facility, drinking-water health violation rate from SDWIS, Superfund site burden relative to industrial activity, and overall water violation rate. Scores are benchmarked against all 56 U.S. states and territories. When a dimension lacks data, its weight redistributes to the remaining dimensions so the score never deflates from missing inputs. This is a registry-count composite, not a clinical exposure or health-outcome assessment.

About This Data

This page aggregates environmental data from three EPA programs for Kentucky: the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) for industrial chemical releases, the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) for water quality, and the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) for hazardous waste cleanup sites.

PlainEnviro presents this data without advocacy framing. Numbers reflect reported data and may not capture all environmental activity. For specific health or environmental concerns, contact your state environmental agency.

What to do with Kentucky's data

Use this state profile as a starting point, then drill into the specific dataset that matters to you.

  • Check the 489 TRI facilities reporting in Kentucky for the largest reported releases near a specific county. View facilities
  • 195 water systems in the state have a recorded health-based violation, check if yours is one of them. Check water systems
  • See how Kentucky compares to other states on releases, water violations, and Superfund sites. State rankings

Reported data reflects what facilities and agencies disclose to the EPA; it is not a complete measure of environmental risk or a substitute for local guidance.

Use and verify this record

Kentucky's profile brings together EPA release, drinking-water, and Superfund records. It reports the underlying programs without making a health or environmental-risk determination.

State environmental figures are computed directly from EPA data. The methodology records the joins, definitions, and refresh cadence for each program.

PlainEnviro renders public EPA records directly from its data pipeline; no figure on this page is typed in by an editor. See the editorial standards and corrections policy for how source changes and reported errors are handled.

Federal sources included in this profile
  • EPA Toxics Release Inventory Basic Data Files - annual facility-level release disclosures. epa.gov
  • EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System - public water-system and violation records. epa.gov
  • EPA Superfund National Priorities List - hazardous-waste cleanup-site records. epa.gov