Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
ZINC CORPORATION OF AMERICA
900 DELAWARE AVE, PALMERTON, PA, 18071
Parent company: HORSEHEAD INDUSTRIES INC
Carcinogen
PBT
— EPA classifications across all reporting years
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 | Zinc compounds | Copper compounds | Manganese compounds | Lead | Lead compounds | Total (lbs) |
| 2003 | 6,100 | 2,100 | 384 | — | 19 | 8,603 |
| 2002 | 4,450 | 1,900 | — | — | 17 | 6,374 |
| 2001 | 1,270 | 1,707 | — | — | 14 | 2,995 |
| 2000 | 1,962 | 2,007 | — | — | 18 | 3,993 |
| 1999 | 7,500 | 1,612 | 558 | — | 20 | 9,730 |
| 1998 | 7,108 | 1,826 | 509 | — | 47 | 9,548 |
| 1997 | 2,351 | 2,026 | — | — | — | 4,377 |
| 1996 | 11,820 | 2,216 | 651 | — | — | 14,687 |
| 1995 | 18,192 | 2,042 | 745 | — | — | 20,979 |
| 1994 | 60,625 | 2,838 | 3,302 | — | — | 66,765 |
| 1993 | 36,652 | 2,672 | 3,033 | — | — | 42,357 |
| 1992 | 88,890 | 3,239 | 4,562 | — | 186 | 96,981 |
| 1991 | 121,568 | 3,404 | 134 | — | 194 | 125,539 |
| 1990 | 223,155 | 5,921 | — | — | — | 229,076 |
| 1989 | 423,396 | 7,925 | 9,380 | — | 6,417 | 451,064 |
| 1988 | 408,468 | — | 8,250 | — | 6,227 | 423,565 |
| 1987 | — | — | — | 22,190 | — | 22,190 |
▎ 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.