Lackawanna County, PA
The federal environmental record for Lackawanna County (population 215,615): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
4
Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
26
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aladdin Plating | Scott Township | deleted | 07/22/1987 |
| Lackawanna Refuse | Old Forge Borough | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
| Lehigh Electric & Engineering Co. | Old Forge Borough | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
| Taylor Borough Dump | Taylor Borough | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Lackawanna 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EAGLE LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOC PA2350833 | PFBA: 9.4 ng/L PFOA: 8.1 ng/L PFHxA: 4.4 ng/L | above final limit |
| PA AMER WATER CO LAKE SCRANTON PA2359008 | PFOS: 7.6 ng/L PFOA: 4.9 ng/L PFBS: 4.2 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
10 facilities in Lackawanna filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 42k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEIMA USA LLC | CLARKS SUMMIT | Nitric acid, Hydrogen fluoride | 17k lb |
| CANPACK US | OLYPHANT | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 14k lb |
| HOUGHTON CHEMICAL CORP | SCRANTON | Ethylene glycol, Methanol | 6k lb |
| UNITED GILSONITE LABORATORIES | DUNMORE | Certain glycol ethers | 4k lb |
| MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL ADVANCED MATERIALS | SCRANTON | Zinc compounds | 593 lb |
| FXI INC. - ARCHBALD | ARCHBALD | Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) | 466 lb |
| U.S. ARMY SCRANTON ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT | SCRANTON | Copper, Nickel | 322 lb |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN - ARCHBALD | ARCHBALD | Lead | 8 lb |
| POLYCHEMIE INC. | TAYLOR | - | 0 lb |
| NOVAE LLC | CARBONDALE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 556 tank facilities in Lackawanna: 426 tanks in service and 1,376 closed. 333 fuel releases are on record, of which 26 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lackawanna 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 Lackawanna, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALADDIN PLATINGSCOTT TOWNSHIP
- EUSTON LEAD CO AFFIL METAL REFINING LEAD SMELTERSCRANTON
- LACKAWANNA REFUSEOLD FORGE
- LEHIGH ELECTRIC & ENGINEERING CO.OLD FORGE
- MORGAN HIGHWAY LANDFILL HSCASCRANTON
- PRECISION NATIONAL CORPCLARKS SUMMIT
- STEAMTOWN NATL HISTORIC SITESCRANTON
- TAYLOR BOROUGH DUMPTAYLOR
- US ARMY SCRANTON ARMY AMMUNITION PLANTSCRANTON