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Grant County, NM

The federal environmental record for Grant County (population 27,472): 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

2

TRI facilities

19

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

SiteCityStatusListed
Cleveland MillSilver Citydeleted03/31/1989

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Grant 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)

2 facilities in Grant filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.4M lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
CHINO MINES CO MINE CONCENTRATOR-SXEW PLANTSVANADIUMLead And Lead Compounds, Chromium2.0M lb
FREEPORT-MCMORAN TYRONE INC.TYRONELead And Lead Compounds, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)307k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 133 tank facilities in Grant: 39 tanks in service and 315 closed. 54 fuel releases are on record, of which 19 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Grant 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Grant, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • CLEVELAND MILLSILVER CITY
  • PINOS ALTOS MINING DISTRICTNEAR PINOS ALTOS
  • SAN VINCENTE CREEK TAILINGSSILVER CITY
  • SILVER CITY BULLARD STREET SITESILVER CITY
  • SILVER CITY MERCURYSILVER CITY
  • TYRONE MINETYRONE