Linn County, OR
The federal environmental record for Linn County (population 131,496): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
11
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
28
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teledyne Wah Chang | Albany | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Linn 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)
15 facilities in Linn filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.4M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACIFIC CAST TECHNOLOGIES INC | ALBANY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 1.1M lb |
| ATI SPECIALTY ALLOYS & COMPONENTS LLC | ALBANY | Methyl isobutyl ketone, Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 1.0M lb |
| CASCADE PACIFIC PULP HALSEY PULP MILL | HALSEY | Methanol, Ammonia | 999k lb |
| GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER OPERATIONS LLC | HALSEY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead compounds | 110k lb |
| ARAUCO N.A. INC. - DURAFLAKE PARTICLEBOARD | ALBANY | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 79k lb |
| ENTEK INTERNATIONAL LLC | LEBANON | Trichloroethylene | 57k lb |
| W.R. GRACE & CO. | ALBANY | Methyl tert-butyl ether | 16k lb |
| SELMET INC | ALBANY | Nitric acid | 14k lb |
| BAKELITE CHEMICALS LLC | ALBANY | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 10k lb |
| HIGHLINE WARREN - ALBANY | ALBANY | Methanol | 9k lb |
| STEELFAB OF OREGON | TANGENT | Manganese, Copper | 95 lb |
| FEDERAL CARTRIDGE CO DBA HEVI-SHOT | SWEET HOME | Nickel | 51 lb |
| PALM HARBOR HOMES INC | ALBANY | - | 0 lb |
| CLAYTON ALBANY | ALBANY | - | 0 lb |
| CORVALLIS ASPHALT | CORVALLIS | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 372 tank facilities in Linn: 189 tanks in service and 851 closed. 282 fuel releases are on record, of which 28 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Linn 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 Linn, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ABSORBENT TECHNOLOGIES SITEALBANY
- ATI MILLERSBURGALBANY
- BLACK DOG SLOUGH TRANSFORMER DUMP SITEALBANY
- COE CIVIL BIG CLIFF RESERVOIRDETROIT
- COE CIVIL DETROIT DAMMILL CITY
- COE CIVIL GREEN PETER DAMSWEET HOME
- FAMILY PALLET LUMBERSWEET HOME
- LEBANON GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATIONLEBANON
- RIDGEWAY LOGGINGSWEET HOME
- USDA FS WILLAMETTE NF: SWEET HOME WORK CENTERSWEET HOME
- USDOE ALBANY RESEARCH CENTERALBANY