San Juan County, NM
The federal environmental record for San Juan County (population 120,675): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
17
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
65
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Acres Landfill (USDOI) | Farmington | on the NPL | 08/30/1990 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving San Juan 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)
9 facilities in San Juan filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.8M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOUR CORNERS STEAM ELECTRIC STATION | FRUITLAND | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 1.4M lb |
| CHACO GAS PLANT | BLOOMFIELD | n-Hexane, Formaldehyde | 275k lb |
| WESTMORELAND SAN JUAN MINING LLC - SAN JUAN MINE | WATERFLOW | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese compounds | 38k lb |
| SAN JUAN GENERATING STATION | WATERFLOW | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 38k lb |
| WESTERN REFINING - BLOOMFIELD | BLOOMFIELD | Toluene, n-Hexane | 30k lb |
| SAN JUAN GAS PLANT | BLOOMFIELD | n-Hexane, Benzene | 3k lb |
| COASTAL CHEMICAL CO., LLC | FARMINGTON | Ethylene glycol | 1k lb |
| SENERGY PETROLEUM LLC - BLOOMFIELD BULK PLANT | BLOOMFIELD | Zinc compounds, Ethylene glycol | 705 lb |
| PILOT THOMAS LOGISTICS - BLOOMFIELD | BLOOMFIELD | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 408 tank facilities in San Juan: 210 tanks in service and 921 closed. 198 fuel releases are on record, of which 65 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps San Juan 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 San Juan, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BECLABITO LEASE URANIUM MINESSHIPROCK
- BLM-BLANCO LANDFILLBLANCO
- BLM-BLOOFIELD LANDFILLBLOOMFIELD
- BLM-FLORA VISTA LANDFILLFLORA VISTA
- BLM-KIRTLAND LANDFILLKIRTLAND
- BLM-WATERFLOW LANDFILLWATERFLOW
- BLOOMFIELD VILLAGE CLEANERSBLOOMFIELD
- FARMINGTON LANDFILLFARMINGTON
- FARMINGTON MERCURYFARMINGTON
- FARMINGTON TEFTELLERFARMINGTON
- KING TUTT MESA AGGREGATE SITEOAK SPRINGS
- LEE ACRES LANDFILL (USDOI)FARMINGTON
- NAVAJO - CANYON VIEW (ALONGO CLAIM) URANBECLABITO
- NAVAJO - TABLE MESA DIP VATSANOSTEE
- NAVAJO - UPPER FRUITLAND DUMPFRUITLAND
- NAVAJO - VANADIUM CORP. OF AMERIC PLOT 3SHIPROCK
- SHIPROCK PESTICIDESHIPROCK