Bradford County, PA
The federal environmental record for Bradford County (population 59,866): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
7
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Landfill | Terry Township | on the NPL | 10/04/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bradford 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)
5 facilities in Bradford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 903k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODGRAIN INC. | WYSOX | Zinc compounds, Certain glycol ethers | 681k lb |
| GLOBAL TUNGSTEN & POWDERS LLC | TOWANDA | Ammonia, Manganese compounds | 188k lb |
| RYNONE MANUFACTURING CORP | SAYRE | Styrene | 25k lb |
| DUPONT TOWANDA PLANT | TOWANDA | Toluene, Lead And Lead Compounds | 5k lb |
| CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORP | WYALUSING | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 4k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 234 tank facilities in Bradford: 212 tanks in service and 581 closed. 80 fuel releases are on record, of which 7 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bradford 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 Bradford, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BELL LANDFILLTERRY TOWNSHIP