Benton County, OR
The federal environmental record for Benton County (population 97,713): 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
8
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
15
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Chrome Products, Inc. | Corvallis | on the NPL | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Benton 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)
4 facilities in Benton filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 18k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLINGSWORTH & VOSE FIBER CO | CORVALLIS | Barium And Barium Compounds, Zinc compounds | 14k lb |
| HP INC. | CORVALLIS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 3k lb |
| GREEN & WHITE | CORVALLIS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 725 lb |
| OREGON RUBBER MILLS CO | CORVALLIS | Zinc compounds | 250 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 180 tank facilities in Benton: 70 tanks in service and 436 closed. 163 fuel releases are on record, of which 15 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Benton 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 Benton, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CAMPBELLS CLEANERS INCCORVALLIS
- COLLEGE CLEANERSCORVALLIS
- CORVALLIS GROUNDWATER SITECORVALLIS
- CORVALLIS MERCURY SPILLCORVALLIS
- KINGS BOULEVARD MERCURY SPILLCORVALLIS
- LAWNDALE AREAWIDE GROUNDWATER SITECORVALLIS
- UNITED CHROME PRODUCTS, INC.CORVALLIS
- USEPA NHEERL WESTERN ECOLOGY DIVISIONCORVALLIS