Copper
Copper releases at Shoremet LLC rose from 7k lb to 54k lb (7.3×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Shoremet LLC
Total reported releases 54k lb rose by an order of magnitude year over year (+625%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
3601 ENTERPRISE AVE, Valparaiso, Indiana · 325180 · Chemicals
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Copper
Copper concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
Lead
Lead concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2018.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (16 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 24,813. Why we surface this →
31.4%
Low-income
18.8%
People of color
4.5%
Under age 5
13.7%
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.