Armstrong County, PA
The federal environmental record for Armstrong County (population 64,747): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
16
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Farm Drum | Parker | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Armstrong 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)
7 facilities in Armstrong filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEYSTONE POWER PLANT | SHELOCTA | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Ammonia | 1.1M lb |
| PULFLEX TECHNOLOGIES LLC | FORD CITY | Diisocyanates, Styrene | 31k lb |
| LEADING TECHNOLOGIES INC | LEECHBURG | Copper, Lead And Lead Compounds | 134 lb |
| TELEDYNE FLIR DEFENSE INC | FREEPORT | Selenium compounds | 19 lb |
| DYNAMIC MANUFACTURING INC. | FREEPORT | - | 0 lb |
| SINTERMET LLC | KITTANNING | - | 0 lb |
| BPI INC-SCHENLEY PA PLANT | SCHENLEY | Nickel And Nickel Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 261 tank facilities in Armstrong: 171 tanks in service and 583 closed. 126 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Armstrong as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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 Armstrong, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BABCOX & WILCOX DISPOSAL SITELEECHBURG
- CRAIG FARM DRUMPARKER
- JUDGE GRAFF BRIDGE SITEFORD CITY
- KISKIMERE GROUNDWATER WELL INVESTIGATIONVANDERGRIFT
- PPG GLASS DUMP - HSCAFORD CITY