Bannock County, ID
The federal environmental record for Bannock County (population 90,400): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
3
Superfund NPL sites
10
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
1
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Michaud Flats Contamination | Pocatello | on the NPL | 08/30/1990 |
| Pacific Hide & Fur Recycling Co. | Pocatello | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
| Union Pacific Railroad Co. | Pocatello | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bannock 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)
1 facilities in Bannock filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA SEMICONDUCTOR LLC. | POCATELLO | Hydrogen fluoride, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 4k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 316 tank facilities in Bannock: 150 tanks in service and 750 closed. 64 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bannock as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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 Bannock, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CHUBBUCK GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION SITECHUBBUCK
- EASTERN MICHAUD FLATS CONTAMINATIONPOCATELLO
- FMC CORP POCATELLOPOCATELLO
- FORMER FASHION DRY CLEANERSPOCATELLO
- J R SIMPLOT COPOCATELLO
- PACIFIC HIDE & FUR RECYCLING CO.POCATELLO
- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD POCATELLO, IDAHOPOCATELLO
- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD YARDPOCATELLO
- US DOI BLM WIREGRASS RESERVOIR SITEDOWNEY
- USDA APHIS POCATELLO SUPPLY DEPOTPOCATELLO