Domtar Paper CO LLC Hawesville Mill
Total reported releases 790k lb held roughly steady year over year (+2%). Total releases concentrations are up 49% since 2010.
58 WESCOR RD, Hawesville, Kentucky · 322110 · Paper · operated by Domtar CORP
Notable Signals
No notable signals at this facility for the current reporting year. See chemicals and equity context below for the full picture.
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are up 38% since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations are up 26% since 2012.
Cresol (mixed isomers)
Cresol (mixed isomers) concentrations are up 97% since 2010.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2016.
Phenol
Phenol concentrations have fallen 21% since 2010.
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (2 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 1,016. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
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.