Northwest Arctic Borough, AK

The federal environmental record for Northwest Arctic Borough (population 7,361): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Northwest Arctic 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)

2 facilities in Northwest Arctic filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 723.9M lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
RED DOG OPERATIONS	KOTZEBUE	Zinc compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds	723.9M lb
CROWLEY KOTZEBUE BULK FUEL FACILITY	KOTZEBUE	n-Hexane, 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	758 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 4 tank facilities in Northwest Arctic: 0 tanks in service and 5 closed. 6 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Northwest Arctic 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 Northwest Arctic, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

FORMER UTICA MINE ANSCA SITEDEERING
RALPH WIEN MEMORIAL AIRPORTKOTZEBUE
USAF LRRS KOTZEBUEKOTZEBUE
USDOD - KRUSENSTERN RRSKIVALINA
USDOD - KRUSENSTERN RRSKIVALINA