Bedford County, PA
The federal environmental record for Bedford County (population 47,418): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
27
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bedford 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)
9 facilities in Bedford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 66k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEDFORD TECHNICAL PRODUCTS LLC | MANNS CHOICE | Certain glycol ethers, Phenol | 36k lb |
| CREATIVE PULTRUSIONS INC | ALUM BANK | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 22k lb |
| BEDFORD REINFORCED PLASTICS INC | BEDFORD | Styrene, Decabromodiphenyl oxide | 7k lb |
| DEFIANCE METAL PRODUCTS | BEDFORD | Manganese | 799 lb |
| JLG INDUSTRIES INC. - SUNNYSIDE FACILITY | BEDFORD | Manganese, Nickel | 47 lb |
| CRONIMET SPECIALTY METALS USA INC | BEDFORD | Chromium, Nickel | 15 lb |
| REX HEAT TREAT-BEDFORD INC | BEDFORD | Ammonia | 14 lb |
| KENNAMETAL BEDFORD CASTING PLANT | BEDFORD | Cobalt | 5 lb |
| CAPTIVEAIRE SYSTEMS INC | BEDFORD | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 184 tank facilities in Bedford: 173 tanks in service and 446 closed. 92 fuel releases are on record, of which 27 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bedford 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 Bedford, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- EVERETT JUNKYARD (AKA THOMAS COLLEDGE PROPERTY)EVERETT