Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds releases at Lake City Plating Plant 2 rose from 21k lb to 35k lb between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Lake City Plating Plant 2
Total reported releases 47k lb fell sharply year over year (-69%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
1700 LAKE AVE, Ashtabula, Ohio · 332813 · Fabricated Metals · operated by Lake City Plating
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Notable Signals
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) releases at Lake City Plating Plant 2 fell from 124k lb to 7k lb (94% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid concentrations have more than halved since 2018.
Cyanide compounds
Cyanide compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2019.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (23 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 21,777. Why we surface this →
51.4%
Low-income
25.1%
People of color
6.4%
Under age 5
20.1%
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.