Copper
Copper releases at Mueller - North Foundry rose from 155k lb to 603k lb (3.9×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Mueller - North Foundry
Total reported releases 712k lb more than tripled year over year (+360%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
2675 N JASPER ST, Decatur, Illinois · 331529 · Primary Metals · operated by Mueller Water Products INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Copper
Copper concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Zinc (fume or dust)
Zinc (fume or dust) volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (59 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 49,288. Why we surface this →
46.6%
Low-income
39.4%
People of color
5.8%
Under age 5
17.9%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.