Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene releases at Thunderbird Metals fell from 17k lb to 4k lb (76% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Thunderbird Metals
Total reported releases 12k lb fell meaningfully year over year (-30%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 38% since 2010.
1501 OAKTON ST, Elk Grove Village, Illinois · 332999 · Fabricated Metals · operated by Thunderbird LLC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations are up 33% since 2016.
Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Copper compounds
Copper compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Lead
Lead volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid concentrations have more than halved since 2018.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (57 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 79,970. Why we surface this →
24.5%
Low-income
42.4%
People of color
6.3%
Under age 5
16.0%
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.