Bay County, MI
The federal environmental record for Bay County (population 102,500): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
149
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay City Middlegrounds | Bay City | proposed | - |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bay 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)
10 facilities in Bay filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 265k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHIGAN SUGAR CO - BAY CITY FACTORY | BAY CITY | Ammonia | 254k lb |
| MPLX TERMINALS LLC - BAY CITY MI TERMINAL | BAY CITY | n-Hexane, Toluene | 4k lb |
| DOW SILICONES CORP AUBURN SITE | AUBURN | Zinc compounds, Aluminum (fume or dust) | 3k lb |
| BAY CAST - WEBSTER STREET PLANT | BAY CITY | Manganese compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 2k lb |
| QUANTUM COMPOSITES INC. | BAY CITY | Styrene | 2k lb |
| BAY CAST - CENTER STREET PLANT | BAY CITY | Manganese compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 641 lb |
| GENERAL MOTORS LLC - BAY CITY PLANT | BAY CITY | Copper | 146 lb |
| MERSEN USA GS CORP - BAY CITY | BAY CITY | - | 0 lb |
| STRAITS WOOD TREATING | BAY CITY | - | 0 lb |
| DE KARN JC WEADOCK GENERATING PLANT | ESSEXVILLE | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 351 tank facilities in Bay: 141 tanks in service and 889 closed. 343 fuel releases are on record, of which 149 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bay as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Bay, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMERICAN RECYCLING FIREBAY CITY
- BAY CITY MIDDLEGROUNDSBAY CITY
- M&A CASTINGSPINCONNING
- SALZBURG CLEANERSBAY CITY
- THIRD STREET AUTO REPAIRPINCONNING
- VALLEY CHROME PLATINGBAY CITY