Storey County, NV
The federal environmental record for Storey County (population 4,177): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
11
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Storey 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)
11 facilities in Storey filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.1M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TESLA GIGAFACTORY | SPARKS | Nickel And Nickel Compounds, Cobalt And Cobalt Compounds | 1.1M lb |
| REDWOOD MATERIALS - BATTERY MATERIALS CAMPUS 1 | MCCARRAN | Cobalt compounds, Copper And Copper Compounds | 9k lb |
| AZZ GALVANIZING RENO | MCCARRAN | Zinc compounds, Lead | 6k lb |
| PITTSBURGH PAINT CO | MCCARRAN | 3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate, Zinc compounds | 341 lb |
| JAMES HARDIE BUILDING PRODUCTS RENO | SPARKS | Lead And Lead Compounds | 200 lb |
| ASIA UNION ELECTRONIC CHEMICALS | MCCARRAN | Nitric acid, Ammonia | 69 lb |
| PERU RECYCLING FACILITY | SPARKS | Lead | 1 lb |
| DYNAMIC ISOLATION SYSTEMS INC | MCCARRAN | - | 0 lb |
| SCOUGAL RUBBER CO | MCCARRAN | - | 0 lb |
| CMC REBAR RENO | SPARKS | - | 0 lb |
| MARS PETCARE US INC. | SPARKS | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 17 tank facilities in Storey: 12 tanks in service and 30 closed. 17 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Storey 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 Storey, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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