Herkimer County, NY
The federal environmental record for Herkimer County (population 59,484): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
18
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
16
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiteman Leather | West Winfield | deleted | 01/19/1999 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Herkimer 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)
8 facilities in Herkimer filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 45k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| REMET PIC INC. | UTICA | 4,4'-Isopropylidenediphenol | 21k lb |
| FLOCAST LLC | DOLGEVILLE | Diisocyanates | 19k lb |
| EMPIRE FIBERGLASS PRODUCTS INC. | LITTLE FALLS | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 5k lb |
| FELDMEIER EQUIPMENT INC | LITTLE FALLS | Chromium, Nickel | 524 lb |
| FELDMEIER EQUIPMENT INC | LITTLE FALLS | Chromium, Nickel | 59 lb |
| NORTH HUDSON WOODCRAFT CORP. | DOLGEVILLE | Lead | 51 lb |
| PERFORMANCE HEALTH | DOLGEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| BARRETT PAVING MATERIALS INC. LITCHFIELD | CLAYVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 302 tank facilities in Herkimer: 137 tanks in service and 874 closed. 269 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Herkimer as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Herkimer, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CHARLESTOWN MALL SITEFRANKFORT
- CHICAGO PNEUMATIC TOOL COFRANKFORT
- CRUMB TRAILER PARKWEST WINFIELD
- DUOFOLD INC - MOHAWK VALLEY WAREHOUSEMOHAWK
- FERDULA LFFRANKFORT
- FORMER DUOFOLD CORPORATIONILION
- FRANKFORT ASBESTOSFRANKFORT
- GERMAN FLATTS, ILION, AND MOHAWK LANDFILLGERMAN FLATTS
- GLORY DAYS HERKIMERHERKIMER
- HERKIMER VILLAGE DUMPHERKIMER
- HITEMAN LEATHERWEST WINFIELD
- HM QUACKENBUSH INCHERKIMER
- JOHNNY CAKE ROAD FARMLITTLE FALLS
- MIDDLEVILLE TANNERY DUMPNEWPORT
- OLD ERIE CANALFRANKFORT
- POLAND NY ASBESTOS DUMPPOLAND
- POLAND UNION ASBESTOSPOLAND
- SUDAKOW DUMPFRANKFORT