Environmental Profile of PCBs
in the Great Lakes

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UNITED STATES PCB EMISSIONS INVENTORY

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PCB Transformer Inventory

The U.S. EPA maintains an inventory of all in-use PCB transformers in the U.S. and U.S. territories. The amount of PCBs in each listed transformer is provided. The 1999 PCB Transformer Inventory was used to total the numbers of transformers containing PCBs and the corresponding weight of dielectric fluid for each state. In October, 2001 the EPA released the newest version of the Inventory which can be accessed at http://www.epa.gov/pcb/data.html. Both the 1999 and 2001 data were compared to the state totals calculated and presented in the BNS.

Summary Table of Transformer Data for Great Lakes States (both 1999 and 2001 databases) (.pdf file)

Number of PCB Transformers by State

Bar Chart of Number of Transformers  by State

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Pounds of PCBs in Transformers by State

Bar graph: Transformers-Pounds of PCBs by State

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Link to the website for the Canadian Environmental Law Association Link to the website for the Great Lakes Centers for Occupational & Environmental Safety & Health Canadian PCB Emissions Inventory Emissions Estimates by Data Source