Nye County, NV
The federal environmental record for Nye County (population 55,720): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
7
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Nye 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)
6 facilities in Nye filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 15.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| US ECOLOGY NEVADA INC. | BEATTY | Lead And Lead Compounds, Nickel And Nickel Compounds | 9.4M lb |
| SMOKY VALLEY COMMON OPERATION | ROUND MOUNTAIN | Arsenic compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 6.3M lb |
| US DOE NNSA/NFO NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE | MERCURY | Asbestos (friable), Lead | 245k lb |
| FORELAND REFINING CORP EAGLE SPRINGS REFINERY | ELY | n-Hexane, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 3k lb |
| TONOPAH TEST RANGE OPERATIONS OFFICE | TONOPAH | Lead And Lead Compounds | 44 lb |
| SERVICE ROCK PRODUCTS-PAHRUMP PLANT | PAHRUMP | Lead compounds | 1 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 116 tank facilities in Nye: 125 tanks in service and 314 closed. 67 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Nye 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 Nye, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALL MINERALS INC- BARITE MINE & MILLNORTHUMBERLAND PASS
- AMERICAN BORATE COAMARGOSA VALLEY
- FRONTIER ROAD DRUM SITEAMARGOSA VALLEY
- PAHRUMP DRUMSPAHRUMP
- SMOKY VALLEY MINING COROUND MOUNTAIN
- TONOPAH TEST RANGETONOPAH
- WEISS ROAD DRUM SITEAMARGOSA VALLEY