Shoshone County, ID
The federal environmental record for Shoshone County (population 14,026): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
15
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunker Hill Mining & Metallurgical Complex | Smelterville | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Shoshone 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)
5 facilities in Shoshone filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 24.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HECLA LTD LUCKY FRIDAY MINE UNIT | MULLAN | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 19.6M lb |
| U.S. SILVER - IDAHO INC | WALLACE | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 4.0M lb |
| US EPA FUND-LEAD SUPERFUND SITE/BUNKER HILL CTP | KELLOGG | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 584k lb |
| SPUNSTRAND INC. | WALLACE | Styrene | 20k lb |
| SUNSHINE SILVER MINE | KELLOGG | Manganese, Arsenic | 59 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 98 tank facilities in Shoshone: 44 tanks in service and 243 closed. 38 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Shoshone 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 Shoshone, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AVERY LANDINGAVERY
- AVERY RAILROAD DUMP AND ROUNDHOUSEAVERY
- BUNKER HILL MINING & METALLURGICAL COMPLEXSMELTERVILLE
- CONSTITUTION MILLSITE TAILINGS & ROCKDUMPINEHURST
- DENVER TAILINGS PILEPINEHURST
- DOUGLAS MINEPINEHURST
- FOREST PROD INC PRESSURE TREATING & FARMSMELTERVILLE
- IDORA MINE AND MILLWALLACE
- JACK WAITE MINE & MILL SITEWALLACE
- LIBERAL KING MILLSITE & TAILINGSPINEHURST
- NABOB MILLSITE & MINEPINEHURST
- SIDNEY MILLSITEPINEHURST
- US DA FS BIG CREEK BRIDGEKELLOGG
- USDA FS SHOSHONE WORK CENTERKINGSTON
- USDOI BLM PINE CREEKPINEHURST