Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
AUBURN STEEL CO LEMONT DIV
NEW AVE & CECO RD, LEMONT, IL, 60440
Parent company: AUBURN STEEL CO 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 | Manganese compounds | Lead compounds | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | Copper compounds | Total (lbs) |
| 2000 | 11,619 | 2,010 | 1,680 | — | — | 15,309 |
| 1999 | 12,652 | 2,192 | 1,810 | — | — | 16,654 |
| 1998 | 10,210 | 1,820 | 1,550 | 140 | 170 | 13,890 |
| 1997 | 20,822 | 3,659 | 3,208 | 183 | 239 | 28,111 |
| 1996 | 40,368 | 6,052 | 5,292 | 381 | — | 52,142 |
| 1995 | 41,805 | 6,600 | 5,750 | 416 | — | 54,571 |
| 1994 | 4,806 | 568 | 786 | 43 | — | 6,203 |
| 1993 | 3,590 | 392 | 603 | 27 | — | 4,612 |
▎ 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.