Chaffee County, CO
The federal environmental record for Chaffee County (population 20,617): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
0
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smeltertown Site | Salida | proposed | - |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Chaffee 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.
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 110 tank facilities in Chaffee: 49 tanks in service and 240 closed. 61 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Chaffee as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 4 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Chaffee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BLM CHAFFEE COUNTY LANDFILLSALIDA
- SMELTERTOWN SITESALIDA
- SMELTERTOWN SITESALIDA