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Juneau City and Borough, AK

The federal environmental record for Juneau City and Borough (population 31,555): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

0

Superfund NPL sites

8

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

3

TRI facilities

9

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Juneau reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)

3 facilities in Juneau filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 90.1M lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
HECLA GREENS CREEK MINING COJUNEAUBarium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Zinc compounds87.6M lb
COEUR ALASKA INC KENSINGTON GOLD PROJECTJUNEAUManganese compounds, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)2.5M lb
DELTA WESTERN LLC JUNEAU BULK FACILITYJUNEAUMethyl tert-butyl ether, Toluene549 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 97 tank facilities in Juneau: 28 tanks in service and 198 closed. 76 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Juneau as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.

The record for one specific address

County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Juneau, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • COGHLAN ISLAND FAA STATIONJUNEAU
  • JOHN RISHEL MINERAL INFORMATION CENTERDOUGLAS
  • NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES AUKE CREEK HATCHERYJUNEAU
  • SSR SISTERS ISLAND NAV AIDSEXCURSION INLET
  • TREADWELL MINESDOUGLAS
  • USDA FS TONGASS NF: EMPIRE MINEJUNEAU
  • USDOT FAA JUNEAUJUNEAU
  • USFS DUCK CREEK ADMINISTRATIVE SITEJUNEAU