Oneida County, NY
The federal environmental record for Oneida County (population 227,555): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
2
Superfund NPL sites
24
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
29
TRI facilities
84
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffiss Air Force Base | Rome | on the NPL | 07/22/1987 |
| Ludlow Sand & Gravel | Clayville | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Oneida 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)
29 facilities in Oneida filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 343k lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESONETICS SMART MATERIALS INC | NEW HARTFORD | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 239k lb |
| MICROFOAM INC | UTICA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 68k lb |
| REVERE COPPER PRODUCTS INC. | ROME | Copper And Copper Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 8k lb |
| O W HUBBELL & SONS INC | NEW YORK MILLS | Zinc compounds, Lead compounds | 7k lb |
| WOLFSPEED - MOHAWK VALLEY FAB | MARCY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone | 6k lb |
| SPECIAL METALS CORP | NEW HARTFORD | Nickel, Chromium | 2k lb |
| IWG NEST INC- ROME | ROME | Copper | 2k lb |
| PRATT & WHITNEY - HMI METAL POWDERS | CLAYVILLE | Nickel, Cobalt | 2k lb |
| MATT BREWERY CO INC. | UTICA | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 1k lb |
| SHERRILL MANUFACTURING INC | SHERRILL | Chromium, Nickel compounds | 1k lb |
| OMEGA WIRE INC.- PLANT 1 | CAMDEN | Copper | 1k lb |
| H. P. HOOD LLC | VERNON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 992 lb |
| IWG NEST INC- BOONVILLE | BOONVILLE | Copper | 927 lb |
| TECT UTICA | WHITESBORO | Hydrogen fluoride, Nickel compounds | 925 lb |
| OMEGA WIRE INC-SHERRILL OPERATIONS | ONEIDA | Copper | 716 lb |
| OMEGA WIRE INC. - ROME PLANT | ROME | Copper | 558 lb |
| VARFLEX CORP | ROME | Xylene (mixed isomers) | 500 lb |
| INDIUM CORP OF AMERICA | CLINTON | Lead, Silver | 352 lb |
| CONMED CORP | UTICA | Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | 4 lb |
| JH RHODES CO INC | VERNON | 4,4'-Methylenebis(2-chloroaniline), Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate | 2 lb |
| CALLANAN INDUSTRIES INC. ORISKANY FACILITY | ORISKANY | Lead | 2 lb |
| CALDWELL BENNETT INC | ORISKANY | Lead | 1 lb |
| GERMANIUM CORP OF AMERICA | ROME | Lead | 1 lb |
| INDIUM CORP OF AMERICA | UTICA | Lead | 1 lb |
| WORTHINGTON STEEL ROME LLC | ROME | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,018 tank facilities in Oneida: 453 tanks in service and 3,043 closed. 887 fuel releases are on record, of which 84 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Oneida 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 Oneida, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- 2214 WHITESBORO STREETUTICA
- ABALENE PEST CONTROLCLINTON
- ACCESS STORAGEUTICA
- BOSSERT MFGSITE #6-33-029 FORMERLYUTICA
- CANASTOTA / ONEIDA DERAILMENT RESPONSEONEIDA
- DANDELION VILLAGE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATIONTOWN OF VERONA
- ELIHU ROOT US ARMY RESERVE CENTERUTICA
- FLOYD ANNEX SITEFLOYD
- FORMER COVIDIEN PLANTORISKANY FALLS
- FOSTER PAPER COMPANYUTICA
- GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE (11 AREAS)ROME
- LUCAS AEROSPACE POWER TRANSMISSION CORPUTICA
- LUDLOW SAND & GRAVELCLAYVILLE
- MOHAWK VALLEY OIL INC.UTICA
- MONARCH CHEMICALSUTICA
- NEW YORK EMULSIONS TAR PRODUCTSUTICA
- NIAGARA MOHAWK /HARBOR POINTUTICA
- OLD GENERAL CABLEROME
- PRIMOSHIELD INCUTICA
- ROME LANDFILLROME
- ROME SUBSTATION-NIAGARA MOHAWKROME
- TURBINE ENGINE COMPONENTS TECHNOLOGIES UTICA CORPORATIONWHITESBORO
- US DOD DFSP VERONAVERONA
- WHITESTOWN LFWHITESTOWN