Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
IONICS ELITE CHEMICALS SPRINGFIELD PLANT
270 ROCUS ST, SPRINGFIELD, MA, 01104
Parent company: IONICS INC
Top chemical totals
The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.
Full release table
Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.
| All values in pounds (lbs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Methanol | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Total (lbs) | |||
| 1995 | 780 | 125 | 905 | |||
| 1994 | 3,760 | 320 | 4,080 | |||
| 1993 | 2,480 | 50 | 2,530 | |||
| 1992 | 2,700 | 12 | 2,712 | |||
| 1991 | 1,400 | 5 | 1,405 | |||
| 1990 | 1,040 | 5 | 1,045 | |||
| 1989 | 500 | 5 | 505 | |||
▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.