Oswego County, NY
The federal environmental record for Oswego County (population 118,162): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
4
Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
3
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clothier Disposal | Town of Granby | deleted | 06/10/1986 |
| Fulton Terminals | Fulton | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
| Pollution Abatement Services | Oswego | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
| Volney Municipal Landfill | Town of Volney | on the NPL | 06/10/1986 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Oswego 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)
3 facilities in Oswego filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 154k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVELIS CORP | OSWEGO | Aluminum (fume or dust), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 154k lb |
| OMEGA WIRE INC - WILLIAMSTOWN FACILITY | WILLIAMSTOWN | Copper | 618 lb |
| OSWEGO HARBOR POWER | OSWEGO | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 327 tank facilities in Oswego: 258 tanks in service and 948 closed. 192 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Oswego 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 Oswego, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BIRDS EYE FOODSFULTON
- BRENEMAN INCOSWEGO
- CLOTHIER DISPOSALGRANBY
- CLOTHIER RESIDENCEGRANBY
- COLE-ZAISERWILLIAMSTOWN
- OSWEGO CITY TRANSFER STATIONOSWEGO
- PAS IRWIN DUMPOSWEGO
- POLLUTION ABATEMENT SERVICESOSWEGO
- VOLNEY MUNICIPAL LANDFILLVOLNEY