Denver County, CO
The federal environmental record for Denver County (population 716,577): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
3
Superfund NPL sites
14
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
19
TRI facilities
63
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Sales Co. | Denver | on the NPL | 08/30/1990 |
| Denver Radium Site | Denver | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
| Vasquez Boulevard and I-70 | Denver | on the NPL | 07/22/1999 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Denver 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)
19 facilities in Denver filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 65k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT & MCGILL CO | DENVER | Sodium nitrite, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 32k lb |
| KROGER MOUNTAIN VIEW FOODS | DENVER | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 12k lb |
| DENVER METAL FINISHING | DENVER | Zinc compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 8k lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC PLANT #60 | DENVER | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead | 5k lb |
| US DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY US MINT DENVER | DENVER | Copper, Manganese | 4k lb |
| HOLCIM WCR INC BANNOCK READY MIX PLANT | DENVER | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 1k lb |
| EFI POLYMERS | DENVER | Nonylphenol | 953 lb |
| NESTLE PURINA PETCARE CO | DENVER | Copper, Manganese compounds | 366 lb |
| KBP COIL COATERS INC | DENVER | Certain glycol ethers, 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 36 lb |
| COLORADO SALT PRODUCTS LLC | DENVER | Chlorine | 10 lb |
| BAND IT IDEX INC | DENVER | Nickel, Chromium | 6 lb |
| UNIVAR USA INC DENVER | DENVER | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Ethylene glycol | 4 lb |
| CHRYSO INC. | DENVER | - | 0 lb |
| CMC REBAR DENVER | DENVER | - | 0 lb |
| US MIX | DENVER | Lead And Lead Compounds, Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 0 lb |
| SMYRNA READY MIX CONCRETE LLC - QUIVAS READY MIX | DENVER | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
| CHEMSTATION DENVER | DENVER | - | 0 lb |
| FRITO-LAY INC DENVER | DENVER | - | 0 lb |
| CALIFORNIA EXPANDED METALS CO | DENVER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,693 tank facilities in Denver: 702 tanks in service and 4,094 closed. 1,472 fuel releases are on record, of which 63 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Denver 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 Denver, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ARGO SMELTERDENVER
- ASARCO GLOBE PLANTDENVER
- CHEMICAL SALES CO.DENVER
- DENVER ARMY MEDICAL DEPOTDENVER
- DENVER BULK MAIL CNTR US POSTAL SVCDENVER
- FHWA CFLHD MATERIALS LABORATORY FED HIWY ADMDENVER
- NPS-DENVER SERVICE CENTERDENVER
- POLKA DOT CLNRSDENVER
- RAMP IND INCDENVER
- TSA AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTDENVER
- US CUSTOMS HOUSEDENVER
- VASQUEZ BOULEVARD AND I-70DENVER
- WESTERN MINERALS DENVER PLANTDENVER
- WOLFF STREET CHEMICALSDENVER