Northumberland County, PA
The federal environmental record for Northumberland County (population 90,133): 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
12
TRI facilities
20
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Northumberland 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)
12 facilities in Northumberland filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 189k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOUNT CARMEL COGEN FACILITY | MARION HEIGHTS | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 82k lb |
| TRUCK ACCESSORIES GROUP. LLC DBA TAG EAST | MILTON | Styrene | 62k lb |
| HOEGANAES CORP | WATSONTOWN | Copper, Nickel | 15k lb |
| JERACO ENTERPRISES INC/MILTON PLT | MILTON | Styrene | 13k lb |
| ARCOS INDUSTRIES LLC | MOUNT CARMEL | Chromium, Manganese | 8k lb |
| CHEROKEE PHARMACEUTICALS LLC. | RIVERSIDE | Dichloromethane, Methanol | 7k lb |
| WATSONTOWN BRICK CO | WATSONTOWN | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead | 1k lb |
| KEYSTONE FORGING CO. | NORTHUMBERLAND | Chromium, Nickel | 255 lb |
| GREAT DANE TRAILERS | ELYSBURG | Chromium, Manganese | 130 lb |
| OLIN WINCHESTER LLC | COAL TOWNSHIP | - | 0 lb |
| QUIKRETE - HARRISBURG PA PLANT | PAXINOS | Lead | 0 lb |
| ANTHRACITE INDUSTRIES,INC. | SUNBURY | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 353 tank facilities in Northumberland: 220 tanks in service and 808 closed. 107 fuel releases are on record, of which 20 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Northumberland 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 Northumberland, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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