Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
NUCOR STEEL MEMPHIS INC
3601 PAUL R LOWRY RD, MEMPHIS, TN, 38109
Parent company: NUCOR CORP
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 | Manganese compounds | Manganese And Manganese Compounds | Lead compounds | Mercury compounds | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | 601 | — | 858 | — | — | 2,213 |
| 2023 | 1,429 | — | 1,105 | — | — | 3,356 |
| 2022 | 1,413 | — | 1,156 | — | 250 | 3,433 |
| 2021 | 1,299 | — | 1,465 | — | 183 | 3,687 |
| 2020 | 4,410 | — | 957 | — | 157 | 6,041 |
| 2019 | 2,572 | — | 1,193 | — | — | 6,492 |
| 2018 | 2,825 | — | 1,251 | — | — | 4,988 |
| 2017 | 1,777 | 1,199 | — | 71 | 264 | 3,631 |
| 2016 | 5,717 | 1,598 | — | 369 | 197 | 8,539 |
| 2015 | 213 | 912 | — | 86 | 138 | 1,646 |
| 2014 | 775 | 1,739 | — | 691 | 185 | 3,672 |
| 2013 | 6,584 | 1,788 | — | 415 | 122 | 9,412 |
| 2012 | 6,585 | 1,350 | — | 414 | 122 | 8,994 |
| 2011 | 22,056 | 3,458 | — | 496 | 175 | 26,789 |
| 2010 | 17,179 | 1,898 | — | 277 | 118 | 19,758 |
| 2009 | 1,794 | 1,845 | — | 21 | 3 | 3,698 |
| 2008 | 1,675 | 25 | — | 56 | 3 | 1,774 |
| 1999 | 19,691 | 5,110 | — | 1,047 | — | 25,848 |
| 1998 | 10,770 | 3,870 | — | 735 | — | 15,375 |
| 1997 | 2,331 | 1,578 | — | — | — | 3,909 |
▎ 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.