Kings County, CA
The federal environmental record for Kings County (population 152,682): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
9
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Kings 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)
10 facilities in Kings filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 6.1M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT INC | KETTLEMAN CITY | Asbestos (friable), Copper | 6.1M lb |
| JG BOSWELL CO OIL MILL | CORCORAN | n-Hexane | 50k lb |
| J.G. BOSWELL CO - KINGS TOMATO | CORCORAN | Ammonia | 542 lb |
| US DOD NAS LEMOORE (INSTALLATION) | LEMOORE | Lead, Naphthalene | 542 lb |
| LEPRINO FOODS CO | LEMOORE | Nitric acid, Ammonia | 505 lb |
| LEPRINO FOODS CO | LEMOORE | Nitric acid | 255 lb |
| AIRGAS SPECIALTY PRODUCTS - HANFORD CA | HANFORD | Ammonia | 232 lb |
| TESSENDERLO KERLEY INC HANFORD PLANT | HANFORD | - | 0 lb |
| MARQUEZ BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL, INC- DAIRY & WHEY PLANT | HANFORD | - | 0 lb |
| CALPORTLAND CO - HANFORD READY MIX | HANFORD | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 86 tank facilities in Kings: 245 tanks in service and 0 closed. 158 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Kings 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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