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Alpena County, MI

The federal environmental record for Alpena County (population 28,904): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

1

Superfund NPL sites

7

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

2

TRI facilities

52

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

SiteCityStatusListed
Ossineke Ground Water ContaminationOssinekedeleted09/08/1983

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Alpena 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)

2 facilities in Alpena filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 381k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
HOLCIM (US) INCALPENAManganese And Manganese Compounds, Vanadium compounds381k lb
US DOD USAF MICHIGAN ANG CRTC ALPENAALPENALead0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 160 tank facilities in Alpena: 61 tanks in service and 452 closed. 113 fuel releases are on record, of which 52 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Alpena 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 Alpena, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • ALPENA CRTC MICHIGAN AIR NATIONAL GUARDALPENA
  • ALPENA MI RESIDENTIAL MERCURY SPILLALPENA
  • NATIONAL GYPSUM SITEALPENA
  • OSSINEKE GROUND WATER CONTAMINATIONOSSINEKE
  • SCHEUNER CONSTRUCTIONALPENA
  • THUNDER BAY ISLAND LIGHT STATIONALPENA TOWNSHIP
  • USCG MIDDLE ISLAND LIGHT STATIONALPENA TOWNSHIP