Description — The Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) integrates multiple legacy systems (e.g., CERCLIS, ICTS, SDMS) into a comprehensive tracking and reporting tool, providing data on the inventory of active and archived hazardous waste sites evaluated by the Superfund program. It contains sites that are either proposed to be, or are on, the National Priorities List (NPL) as well as sites that are in the screening and assessment phase for possible inclusion on the NPL.
Last Updated — 2/2021
Source — US EPA
Description — RCRAInfo is EPA's comprehensive information system that supports the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 and the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984 through the tracking of events and activities related to facilities that generate, transport, and treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste.
Last Updated — 2/2021
Source — US EPA
Description — RCRA sites with Institutional and/or Engineering Controls in place. Institutional Controls (IC) are defined as non-engineered and/or legal controls that minimize the potential human exposure to contamination by limiting land or resource use. Whereas, Engineering Controls (EC) consist of engineering measures (e.g, caps, treatment systems, etc.) designed to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination by either limiting direct contact with contaminated areas or controlling migration of contaminants through environmental media.
Last Updated — 3/2018
Source — US EPA
Description — This database lists the owner and location of BUSTR regulated underground storage tank (UST) facilities and UST systems in the State of Ohio. The spreadsheet is generated from the UST registration module within the OTTER (Ohio Tank Tracking and Environmental Regulations) Database. The file indicates if the USTs at each facility are active (CIU - currently in use) or inactive (OS1 - OOS1 less than 12 Mths -out-of-service for less than 12 months; OS2 - OOS Properly +12 Mo - properly out-of-service for more than 12 months; OS3 - OOS3 Improp +12 VO - improperly out-of-service for more than 12 months; TCL - Temporarily Closed, or ABN - Orphaned). In addition, the file also lists UST system details such as tank installation date, construction, contents, type of leak detection, and if there is spill and overfill protection equipment on the UST system.
Last Updated — 1/2016
Source — Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR)
Description — This database lists the location of BUSTR regulated UST facilities that have UST systems with suspected or confirmed petroleum releases (LTF =1) or systems that require removal and closure assessments (LTF=6). The spreadsheet is generated from the corrective action module within the OTTER (Ohio Tank Tracking and Environmental Regulations) Database. The FR Status (Facility Release Status) gives a short description of the activity that an UST system petroleum release is currently undergoing during the corrective action or closure removal/assessment process. The Facility Status indicates if the corrective action or closure process is still ongoing such as a T1S: Tier 1 Source Investigation (Active) or has been closed out such as a NFA: No Further Action (Inactive). The Class listing indicates the status of a responsible party (UST owner or operator) for an UST system undergoing corrective action or closure. The following is a description for each Class code: A - A Responsible Party (RP) has not yet been determined: B - The result of the RP search was inconclusive; C - The RP is non-viable; D - A viable RP has been identified; E - Referred to enforcement; F - Federally regulated closures (pre September 1, 1992).
Last Updated — 1/2016
Source — Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR)
Description — This database contains the roughly 82 sites of coal gas generators in Ohio. These plants produced gas for street lights in the communities in which they were located. The production of one million cubic feet of gas also produced about 800 gallons of liquid coal tar, which is a carcinogen. TOWNGAS was developed from a database from Radian Corporation along with information from the Ohio Historical Society and various public libraries.
Please keep in mind that the database is no longer maintained and may contain inaccurate or outdated information. Therefore, Ohio EPA disclaims any responsibility for wrong or misleading entries. Additionally, some addresses may not be mapped appropriately due to incomplete records in the OEPA database.
Last Updated — 11/2016 (data doesn't change)
Source — OEPA Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR)
Description — The Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) database contains every site the Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) has/had involvement with. It is an index of sites for which OEPA district offices maintain files. The database is NOT a record of contaminated sites in Ohio. Not all sites in the database are contaminated, and a site's absence from the database does not imply that it is uncontaminated. The database is also not a list of brownfield sites. Not all sites in the database meet the federal or state definitions of brownfields, and many properties in Ohio which would qualify as brownfields are not in the database.
Last Updated — 12/2016
Source — OEPA Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR)
Description — This database of about 2800 sites represents "pits, ponds and lagoons" where various types of sludge were dumped over many years. The object of this data collection was to determine if harm was done to drinking water supplies below each dump site. The data were collected during the 1970s and published by U.S. EPA in 1980.
Please keep in mind that the database is no longer maintained and may contain inaccurate or outdated information. Therefore, Ohio EPA disclaims any responsibility for wrong or misleading entries. Additionally, some addresses may not be mapped appropriately due to incomplete records in the OEPA database.
Last Updated — 12/2016 (data doesn't change)
Source — OEPA Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR)
Description — This database represents multiple types of solid waste facilities and other landfills around the state. The landfills are categorized into Permitted Municipal Solid Waste Landfill, Municipal Solid Waste Landfill, MSW Class 1 Composting, Closing Municipal Solid Waste Landfill, Construction and Demolition Debris Landfill, Closing CDD Landfill, Captive Industrial Landfill, Residual Solid Waste Landfill, Scrap Tire Monofill, Scrap Tire Recovery Facility, Scrap Tire Collection Facility, and Municipal Solid Waste Transfer Facility. The type of landfill and its spatial location in relation to the ODOT project location is important in determining what if any Environmental Site Assessment is warranted for that site.
Last Updated — 2/2019
Source — OEPA Division of Materials and Waste Management (DMWM)
Description - This database contains a list of about 1200 old abandoned dumps or landfills. This database was developed from Ohio EPA staff notebooks and other information dating from the mid-1970's, including old Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and DERR files, the Eckhardt Report and the 1976 Groundwater Pollution Inventory-Summary of Land Disposal.
Please keep in mind that the database is no longer maintained and may contain inaccurate or outdated information. Therefore, Ohio EPA disclaims any responsibility for wrong or misleading entries. Additionally, some addresses may not be mapped appropriately due to incomplete records in the OEPA database (including those with an * included in the LOCATION field).
Last Updated — 12/2016 (data doesn't change)
Source — OEPA Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR)
Description — This database represents multiple types of landfills that are no longer operational. The database contains locations of sites that were historically used for solid waste disposal around the State of Ohio based on file archives at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The sites were derived from files that were archived under the solid waste regulatory program; however, there may have been more than one type of waste at some sites. The type of landfill and its spatial location in relation to the ODOT project location is important in determining what if any Environmental Site Assessment is warranted for that site.
Last Updated — 2/2019
Source — OEPA Division of Materials and Waste Management (DMWM)
Description — This database represents multiple types of solid waste facilities and other landfills around the state. The type of landfill and its spatial location in relation to the ODOT project location is important in determining what if any Environmental Site Assessment is warranted for that site. Please note that the locations in this file are not confirmed and are intended for reference only to see the potential area of a facility.
Approximate waste area — Type 1: The area was traced from a map used in a published Ohio EPA file document, such as an engineering map or infographic from a permit, explosive gas plan, Directors Final Findings and Orders, Site Assessment, News release, etc. This area should reasonably accurately represent where the waste is located. If the landfill is capped it should be a fairly accurate representation of the capped waste area. It is important to note that not all "official documents" have high precision maps, and there is often no indication of the map source in such documents. This is the most accurate polygon type. (Note: Not all official EPA publications contain engineering-grade maps, and the source of maps in older publications is not always known)
Parcel — Type 2: A parcel where all or most of landfill is located was traced from a local tax map.
Facility Boundary — Type 3: A known, verified area of some sort that is understood to, at a minimum, contain the waste area but may contain additional areas without waste. Facility boundaries are taken from a map or orthophoto. A facility boundary may include inactive or future disposal areas (for C&DD landfills for example). Facility boundaries are occasionally traced from a fence line or border road that is visible in an orthophoto. Some older file maps or drawings identify the polygon as a "facility boundary" in the legend, and in those cases the "Facility Boundary" designation is used. Some engineering drawings have a line labeled "facility boundary" that includes areas that have sediment ponds, roads and drainage, and so forth (things that are in the permit) in addition to the waste units. Sometimes a facility boundary follows a parcel boundary.
Area of Interest — Type 4: An area where the waste is likely to be, but nobody is certain about it and it has not been verified. In a situation where some or most of the waste has been removed, it's represents the area where the waste used to be. The "Area of interest" designation is also frequently used by the contracting and remediation group to designate a "project area" when estimating budgets for remediation, capping, etc. and many of the Type 4 polygons originated from maps for that program. Area of interest is the least accurate of the designations.
Building — Type 5: At this time a building polygon denotes a municipal waste transfer facility.
Inspector Estimate — Type 6: A staff member needed a map for a project or internal analysis and so an Inspector was asked to (often manually) draw a line on map where, "in his/her professional opinion," the waste was likely to be. These polygons were created to make maps for an individual's project, PowerPoint presentation, or for other Divisions within Ohio EPA to use for internal analyses.
*Note on conflicting polygon boundaries: In some cases a single facility may have more than one polygon of the same type and those two polygons may not be congruent. The reason for this is because the polygons originated from different sources and the sources did not agree. For example, the maps may have been from different time periods but the map source was not dated; or the polygons represented different things that were not clearly articulated in the source documents (for example a 'project area' vs a facility area). In cases like this the additional polygons have been retained until new information is available that will identify the most accurate depiction of the landfill waste area. Check the comment field for any additional information that may be available about these polygons.Explanation of LATITUDE_DD_BEGIN and LONGITUDE_DD_BEGIN: Coordinate geometry calculated based on centroid of polygon.
Last Updated — 12/2016
Source — OEPA Division of Materials and Waste Management (DMWM)
Description — This database contains the locations of over 2,100 projects with Engineering and/or Institutional Controls identified by OEPA. Sites with Institutional Controls (IC) have property use restrictions in place. Sites with Engineering Controls (EC) have operation and maintenance restrictions in place.
Last Updated — 12/2016
Source — OEPA Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR)
Description — This database contains spill and emergency response locations throughout Ohio as reported by the Ohio EPA starting in 2001. The Ohio EPA records incident reports annually through calls to their emergency response spill hotline from citizens, companies, law enforcement, emergency responders and other agencies. The majority of these incidents involve chemicals and petroleum products.
Please keep in mind that some addresses may not be mapped appropriately due to incomplete records in the OEPA database and/or additional geolocating done by OES.
Last Updated — 3/2018
Source — OEPA
Description — This database contains the locations of almost 3,000 Voluntary Action Program (VAP) sites throughout Ohio that have been listed in the Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) database. These are properties that, to Ohio EPA's knowledge, are being cleaned up in accordance with VAP or is receiving technical assistance through the VAP. Detailed information regarding the status of each site can be provided by the appropriate District Office.
Last Updated — 12/2016
Source — OEPA Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR)
Description — This dataset highlights special areas to be aware of and take precautions for when doing field work, roadway projects, etc. Precautions are typically for health and safety reasons but also so any agreements with the regulators aren’t violated. Information included in this dataset includes a description of site and what happened to cause this to be an area of concern.
Last Updated — 6/2017
Source — ODOT-OES