Dutchess County, NY
The federal environmental record for Dutchess County (population 297,150): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
6
Superfund NPL sites
21
federal cleanup sites
4
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
11
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haviland Complex | Town of Hyde Park | deleted | 06/10/1986 |
| Hopewell Precision Area Contamination | Hopewell Junction | on the NPL | 04/27/2005 |
| Jones Sanitation | Hyde Park | deleted | 07/22/1987 |
| Sarney Farm | Amenia | on the NPL | 06/10/1986 |
| Shenandoah Road Ground Water Contamination | East Fishkill | on the NPL | 06/14/2001 |
| Wappinger Creek | Dutchess County | on the NPL | 09/09/2016 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Dutchess with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| BRINKERHOFF WATER DISTRICT NY1302766 | PFBS: 9 ng/L PFOA: 8.6 ng/L PFBA: 7.6 ng/L | above final limit |
| GREENFIELD WATER DISTRICT NY1302794 | PFOS: 5.7 ng/L PFPeA: 3 ng/L | above final limit |
| MANCHESTER WATER DISTRICT, NY NY1330550 | PFBA: 5.9 ng/L PFOA: 4.3 ng/L PFBS: 3 ng/L | above final limit |
| UNITED WAPPINGER WATER IMPROVEMENT DIST. NY1330660 | PFBA: 5.3 ng/L PFBS: 3 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
6 facilities in Dutchess filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 583k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONSEMI | HOPEWELL JUNCTION | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 567k lb |
| CHEMPRENE LLC | BEACON | Toluene, Zinc compounds | 14k lb |
| EMAGIN CORP | HOPEWELL JUNCTION | N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone | 2k lb |
| PENTAGON TECHNOLOGIES | HOPEWELL JUNCTION | Nitric acid | 221 lb |
| MARCO BOARDHOUSE | POUGHKEEPSIE | Lead | 0 lb |
| PAWLING ENGINEERED PRODUCTS | PAWLING | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 899 tank facilities in Dutchess: 769 tanks in service and 2,802 closed. 639 fuel releases are on record, of which 11 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Dutchess 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 Dutchess, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMENIA LANDFILLAMENIA
- APPLE VALLEY SHOPPING CENTERLA GRANGE
- DUTCHESS SANI HERTELPOUGHKEEPSIE
- FORMER WESTERN PUBLISHINGPOUGHKEEPSIE
- HAVILAND COMPLEXHYDE PARK
- HERB REDL DEMO & RUBBISHPOUGHKEEPSIE
- HOPEWELL PRECISIONHOPEWELL JUNCTION
- JOHNNY-ON-THE-SPOT CLEANERSPOUGHKEEPSIE
- JONES SANITATIONHYDE PARK
- NPS-UNITED NUCLEARPAWLING
- ORIGINAL BEEKMAN LANDFILLBEEKMAN (T)
- ROYAL CARTING SERVICEHOPEWELL JUNCTION
- SARNEY FARMAMENIA
- SCHATZ PLANTPOUGHKEEPSIE
- SHENANDOAH ROAD GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATIONEAST FISHKILL
- TEXACOFISHKILL
- TEXACO RESEARCH CENTERGLENHAM
- THREE STAR ANODIZINGWAPPINGERS FALLS
- TUCK INDUSTRIES INCBEACON
- VA HOSPITALCASTLE POINT
- WAPPINGER CREEKWAPPINGERS FALLS, TOWN OF WAPPINGER, TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE