Blair County, PA
The federal environmental record for Blair County (population 121,032): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
21
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Quarries & Disposal, Inc./Stotler Landfill | Antis Township, Logan Township | on the NPL | 03/31/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Blair 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)
10 facilities in Blair filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 13k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| W R GRACE & CO | TYRONE | Dichloromethane, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 8k lb |
| ALPHA ASSEMBLY SOLUTIONS | ALTOONA | Copper compounds, Lead compounds | 4k lb |
| ST PRODUCTS LLC (DBA WIELAND SMALL TUBE PRODUCTS) | DUNCANSVILLE | Copper, Lead | 966 lb |
| DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY | ALTOONA | - | 0 lb |
| VEEDER-ROOT CO | DUNCANSVILLE | Copper, Lead | 0 lb |
| CARGILL FEED & NUTRITION MARTINSBURG | MARTINSBURG | - | 0 lb |
| SYNTHEX ORGANICS LLC | ALTOONA | - | 0 lb |
| AMERICAN EAGLE PAPER MILLS | TYRONE | Formic acid | 0 lb |
| CHAMPION HOMES BUILDERS INC. ALTANTIC HOMES DIV | CLAYSBURG | - | 0 lb |
| CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO | TYRONE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 377 tank facilities in Blair: 263 tanks in service and 946 closed. 208 fuel releases are on record, of which 21 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Blair 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 Blair, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALTOONA WESTERLY STPLOGAN TWP
- BAREFOOT DISPOSALHOLLIDAYSBURG
- CATHARINE TOWNSHIP COAL ASHWILLIAMSBURG
- DELTA QUARRIES & DISPOSAL, INC./STOTLER LANDFILLALTOONA