Churchill County, NV
The federal environmental record for Churchill County (population 25,803): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carson River Mercury Site | Churchill County, Lyon County | on the NPL | 08/30/1990 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Churchill 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)
8 facilities in Churchill filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 5.6M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAFETY-KLEEN SYSTEMS INC. | FALLON | Ethylene glycol, Aluminum oxide (fibrous forms) | 5.6M lb |
| QUAIL HOLLOW LLC | FALLON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 7k lb |
| US NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON BRAVO 16 | FALLON | Lead | 6k lb |
| US NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON BRAVO 19 | FALLON | Lead | 2k lb |
| KENNAMETAL INC (REFINERY) | FALLON | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 2k lb |
| NEW MILLENNIUM BUILDING SYSTEMS LLC | FALLON | Manganese, Nickel | 2k lb |
| US NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON BRAVO 17 | FALLON | Lead | 632 lb |
| US NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON BRAVO 20 | FALLON | Lead | 223 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 82 tank facilities in Churchill: 36 tanks in service and 174 closed. 63 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Churchill 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Churchill, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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