Duchesne County, UT
The federal environmental record for Duchesne County (population 20,477): 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
5
TRI facilities
17
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Duchesne 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 Duchesne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTAMONT GAS PLANT-KINDER MORGAN | ALTAMONT | Methanol, Ethylene glycol | 4.2M lb |
| BLUEBELL GAS PLANT | ROOSEVELT | Methanol, Ethylene glycol | 123k lb |
| MULTI-CHEM GROUP ROOSEVELT UT FACILITY | ROOSEVELT | Methanol | 5k lb |
| HARMSTON PIT | ROOSEVELT | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 250 lb |
| KIELBASA PIT | DUCHESNE | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 2 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 202 tank facilities in Duchesne: 67 tanks in service and 354 closed. 129 fuel releases are on record, of which 17 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Duchesne 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 Duchesne, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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