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Wayne County, PA

The federal environmental record for Wayne County (population 51,173): 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

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

1

TRI facilities

10

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Wayne 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)

1 facilities in Wayne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
US PENITENTIARY CANAANWAYMARTLead2k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 176 tank facilities in Wayne: 162 tanks in service and 363 closed. 79 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Wayne 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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