Douglas County, OR
The federal environmental record for Douglas County (population 112,435): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
12
TRI facilities
49
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formosa Mine | Riddle | on the NPL | 09/19/2007 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Douglas 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)
12 facilities in Douglas filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 206k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS DILLARD COMPLEX | DILLARD | Manganese compounds, Methanol | 79k lb |
| ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS CO. - RIDDLE PLYWOOD #4 | RIDDLE | Manganese compounds, Methanol | 76k lb |
| ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS CO-EWP FACILITY | RIDDLE | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 24k lb |
| ORENCO SYSTEMS INC - SUTHERLIN FACILITY | SUTHERLIN | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 10k lb |
| ORENCO SYSTEMS INC - NORTH BANK FACILITY | ROSEBURG | Styrene, Dicyclopentadiene | 8k lb |
| ORENCO SYSTEMS INC - WINCHESTER FACILITY | ROSEBURG | Styrene | 4k lb |
| FCC COMMERCIAL FURNITURE INC. | ROSEBURG | Styrene | 3k lb |
| CPM DEVELOPMENT CORP. DBA UMPQUA SAND & GRAVEL - UMPQUA PIT | ROSEBURG | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 757 lb |
| SWANSON GROUP MFG GLENDALE PLYWOOD | GLENDALE | Diisocyanates | 400 lb |
| SWANSON GROUP MANFUACTURING | ROSEBURG | Lead And Lead Compounds | 3 lb |
| MDU RESOURCES ROSEBURG ASPHALT | ROSEBURG | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Lead compounds | 0 lb |
| HOOVER TREATED WOOD PRODUCTS INC | WINSTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 439 tank facilities in Douglas: 279 tanks in service and 1,080 closed. 331 fuel releases are on record, of which 49 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Douglas 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 Douglas, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BONANZA MINENONPAREIL
- FORMOSA MINERIDDLE
- MAUD S MINEDAYS CREEK
- MAUD S MINEDAYS CREEK
- NONPAREIL MINE RETORTSUTHERLIN
- RED ROCK ROAD - SUTHERLINSUTHERLIN
- RIDDLE CHEMICAL SHEDRIDDLE
- UMPQUA MINEDAYS CREEK
- USVA ROSEBURG HEALTHCARE SYSTEMROSEBURG