Anne Arundel County, MD

The federal environmental record for Anne Arundel County (population 594,582): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

Site	City	Status	Listed
Curtis Bay Coast Guard Yard	Anne Arundel County	on the NPL	09/05/2002
Fort George G. Meade	Odenton	on the NPL	07/28/1998
Mid-Atlantic Wood Preservers, Inc.	Harmans	deleted	06/10/1986
Middletown Road Dump	Annapolis	deleted	09/08/1983

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Anne Arundel 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)

17 facilities in Anne Arundel filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 137k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
BRANDON SHORES & WAGNER COMPLEX	CURTIS BAY	Barium And Barium Compounds, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	97k lb
VIBRANTZ SPECIALTY PRODUCTS LLC	BALTIMORE	Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	19k lb
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY FIRING RANGE	FORT GEORGE G MEADE	Lead	10k lb
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP	LINTHICUM HEIGHTS	N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	6k lb
US DOD NSA ANNAPOLIS	ANNAPOLIS	Lead	2k lb
ELITE SPICE INC.	HANOVER	Propylene oxide, Ethylene oxide	911 lb
HI-TECH COLOR INC	ODENTON	Methyl isobutyl ketone, N,N-Dimethylformamide	379 lb
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP	LINTHICUM	Lead	316 lb
FORT MEADE (USSS RANGE 1)	FORT GEORGE G MEADE	Lead And Lead Compounds	175 lb
WM. T. BURNETT & CO.	JESSUP	Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)	152 lb
C-CARE LLC	LINTHICUM HEIGHTS	Ammonia	12 lb
FORT GEORGE G MEADE (RANGE)	FORT GEORGE G MEADE	Lead	3 lb
USSS RANGE (FORT MEADE)	FORT GEORGE G MEADE	Lead And Lead Compounds	1 lb
SMO GLEN BURNIE PLANT	GLEN BURNIE	-	0 lb
OLDCASTLE APG MID-ATLANTIC CROFTON MD	ODENTON	Lead And Lead Compounds, Mercury	0 lb
S&G CONCRETE ODENTON	ODENTON	Lead	0 lb
SMO ANNAPOLIS PLANT	ANNAPOLIS	-	0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 1,144 tank facilities in Anne Arundel: 749 tanks in service and 3,513 closed. 1,489 fuel releases are on record, of which 8 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Anne Arundel 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Anne Arundel, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

2021 INAUGURAL NSSE EVENTFT MEADE
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY LANDFILLGLEN BURNIE
DAVID TAYLOR/ANNAPOLIS - CONTROLANNAPOLIS
DAVID TAYLOR/ANNAPOLIS - LAUNCHANNAPOLIS
DAVIDSONVILLE - LAUNCHDAVIDSONVILLE
EPA CENTRAL REGIONAL LABORATORYANNAPOLIS
FORT GEORGE G. MEADEODENTON
GENERAL SERVICE ADMIN.-CURTIS BAY DEPOTBALTIMORE
KEY BRIDGE COLLAPSEBALTIMORE
MID-ATLANTIC WOOD PRESERVERS, INC.HARMANS
MIDDLETOWN ROAD DUMPANNAPOLIS
ORIGIN BALTIMORE TERMINAL LLCBALTIMORE
U S COAST GUARD YARDBALTIMORE
US NAVAL ACADEMYANNAPOLIS
US NAVAL STATIONANNAPOLIS
USEPA REGION 3 ANALYTICAL SERVICES & QUALITY ASSURANCE BRANCHFORT MEADE