Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
AGERE SYSTEMS INC
2525 N 12TH ST, READING, PA, 196123396
Parent company: NA
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 | Acetone | Trichloroethylene | Methanol | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | Freon 113 (CFC-113) | Total (lbs) |
| 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | 607 |
| 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | 2,315 |
| 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | 3,815 |
| 2000 | — | — | — | 44,200 | — | 54,916 |
| 1999 | — | — | — | 49,000 | — | 62,505 |
| 1998 | — | — | — | 76,000 | — | 88,905 |
| 1997 | — | 9,105 | — | 60,000 | — | 82,965 |
| 1996 | — | 16,500 | 19,500 | 63,000 | — | 117,800 |
| 1995 | — | 14,800 | 9,350 | 49,000 | — | 97,855 |
| 1994 | — | 7,250 | 21,000 | — | — | 87,405 |
| 1993 | 11,400 | 28,900 | 40,300 | — | 6,900 | 138,950 |
| 1992 | 50,100 | 33,000 | 63,600 | — | 34,000 | 228,650 |
| 1991 | 144,000 | 52,000 | 55,000 | — | 44,000 | 364,350 |
| 1990 | 150,006 | 44,275 | 40,005 | — | 42,005 | 418,091 |
| 1989 | 168,250 | 83,657 | 90,250 | — | 68,250 | 634,735 |
| 1988 | — | 231,012 | — | — | — | 307,029 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20,433 | — | — | 97,093 |
▎ 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.