Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
BORAL BRICKS INC BESSEMER PLANT 5
5799 VULCAN RD, BESSEMER, AL, 35022
Parent company: BORAL INDUSTRIES
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 | Hydrogen fluoride | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Manganese compounds | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | Lead compounds | Total (lbs) |
| 2008 | 38,686 | 7,525 | 441 | — | 17 | 46,669 |
| 2007 | 130,173 | 25,320 | 4,800 | — | 56 | 160,349 |
| 2006 | 161,845 | 31,480 | 5,968 | — | 70 | 199,363 |
| 2005 | 145,304 | 28,263 | 5,359 | — | 61 | 178,987 |
| 2004 | 156,438 | 30,428 | 5,769 | — | — | 192,635 |
| 2003 | 178,680 | 34,755 | 4,696 | — | — | 218,131 |
| 2002 | 177,084 | 34,444 | 4,271 | — | — | 215,799 |
| 2001 | 173,522 | 33,751 | 6,032 | — | — | 213,305 |
| 2000 | 166,787 | 40,075 | 7,232 | — | — | 214,094 |
| 1999 | 178,000 | 43,000 | 2,790 | 2,700 | — | 226,490 |
| 1998 | 158,000 | 38,000 | 1,630 | 2,100 | — | 199,730 |
| 1997 | 160,000 | 38,000 | — | — | — | 198,000 |
| 1996 | 151,215 | 36,333 | — | — | — | 187,548 |
| 1995 | 146,000 | — | 730 | — | — | 146,730 |
| 1988 | — | — | 250 | — | — | 250 |
▎ 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.