Van Buren County, MI
The federal environmental record for Van Buren County (population 75,798): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
90
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burrows Sanitation | Hartford | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Van Buren 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)
7 facilities in Van Buren filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 42k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLOY STEEL TREATING CO. INC. | GOBLES | Ammonia | 36k lb |
| W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN. | SOUTH HAVEN | Methanol, Toluene | 4k lb |
| SIKA MBCC US LLC | MATTAWAN | Diisocyanates, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 909 lb |
| SPECIAL-LITE INC | DECATUR | Diisocyanates | 1 lb |
| PRO FARM MICHIGAN MANUFACTURING | BANGOR | - | 0 lb |
| REFRESCO BEVERAGES US INC | PAW PAW | - | 0 lb |
| MICHIGAN PAVING & MATERIALS - PAW PAW (KLETT) ASPHALT PLAN | PAW PAW | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 336 tank facilities in Van Buren: 157 tanks in service and 853 closed. 209 fuel releases are on record, of which 90 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Van Buren 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 Van Buren, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BANGOR CHEMICAL FIREBANGOR
- BURROWS SANITATIONHARTFORD
- COVERT MICHIGAN MERCURY SPILLCOVERT
- DU-WEL HARTFORDHARTFORD
- LANGLOTZ BARNEY FARMBANGOR