Cambria County, PA
The federal environmental record for Cambria County (population 131,441): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
15
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Cambria with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| NANTY GLO WATER AUTH PA4110023 | PFBA: 20.9 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
9 facilities in Cambria filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLVER GREEN ENERGY | COLVER | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Barium And Barium Compounds | 1.0M lb |
| EBENSBURG POWER CO | EBENSBURG | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 635k lb |
| JOHNSTOWN WIRE TECHNOLOGIES INC. | JOHNSTOWN | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 36k lb |
| J-LOK CO | CRESSON | Styrene | 35k lb |
| V&S KORNS GALVANIZING LLC | JOHNSTOWN | Zinc compounds | 10k lb |
| NORTH AMERICAN HOGANAS HIGH ALLOYS LLC | JOHNSTOWN | Copper, Nickel | 4k lb |
| SAFETY-KLEEN SYSTEMS JOHNSTOWN (JOH) | JOHNSTOWN | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 309 lb |
| GAUTIER STEEL HOLDINGS INC. | JOHNSTOWN | Lead compounds | 6 lb |
| LEONARDO DRS - LAUREL TECHNOLOGIES PTNR | JOHNSTOWN | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 465 tank facilities in Cambria: 293 tanks in service and 1,071 closed. 225 fuel releases are on record, of which 15 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Cambria as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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.
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