Chautauqua County, NY
The federal environmental record for Chautauqua County (population 124,891): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
13
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
19
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Chautauqua 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)
19 facilities in Chautauqua filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 25k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNKIRK SPECIALTY STEEL LLC | DUNKIRK | Chromium, Nickel | 11k lb |
| CUMMINS INC JAMESTOWN ENGINE PLANT | LAKEWOOD | Certain glycol ethers | 10k lb |
| NESTLE PURINA PETCARE CO | DUNKIRK | Zinc compounds | 1k lb |
| CLASSIC BRASS INC. | JAMESTOWN | Copper | 667 lb |
| WELCH FOODS INC. | WESTFIELD | Ammonia | 500 lb |
| DAWSON METAL CO INC | JAMESTOWN | Copper, Chromium | 396 lb |
| HOPE'S WINDOWS INC. - ALLEN ST FACILITY | FALCONER | Chromium | 262 lb |
| HOPE'S WINDOWS INC. | JAMESTOWN | Copper | 255 lb |
| MONOFRAX LLC | FALCONER | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 250 lb |
| SPECIAL METALS CORP | DUNKIRK | Nickel, Chromium | 155 lb |
| CHAUTAUQUA PRECISION MACHINING INC | ASHVILLE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 12 lb |
| ULRICH FABRICATION INC. | LAKEWOOD | Chromium, Nickel | 10 lb |
| SUIT-KOTE JAMESTOWN | JAMESTOWN | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lb |
| SOUTHERN TIER BREWING CO | LAKEWOOD | - | 0 lb |
| ANDERSON PRECISION INC | JAMESTOWN | Lead, Copper | 0 lb |
| INX INTERNATIONAL INK CO. | DUNKIRK | - | 0 lb |
| CHAUTAUQUA METAL FINISHING SUPPLY | ASHVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| JAMESTOWN ELECTRO PLATING WORKS INC | JAMESTOWN | Chlorine | 0 lb |
| WEBER KNAPP CO | JAMESTOWN | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 440 tank facilities in Chautauqua: 231 tanks in service and 1,133 closed. 407 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Chautauqua as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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 Chautauqua, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- 54 MAIN STREET SITESILVER CREEK
- ALLEN STREET DEVELOPMENTJAMESTOWN
- BUFFALO ROADIRVING
- CARROLL TOWN LANDFILLFREWSBURG
- CHASE INTERIORSFALCONER
- MARSH VALVEDUNKIRK
- MINA LFMINA
- NYSDEC - PELICAN MNFCJAMESTOWN
- RESOLVE MANUFACTURINGFALCONER
- RIPLEY NEW YORK TRAIN DERAILMENTRIPLEY
- ROBLIN STEELDUNKIRK
- SUPERIOR METAL MANUFACTURING INCJAMESTOWN
- TRI-JAMESJAMESTOWN