Emery County, UT
The federal environmental record for Emery County (population 10,144): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Emery 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)
2 facilities in Emery filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.6M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACIFICORP HUNTER PLANT | CASTLE DALE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 1.4M lb |
| PACIFICORP ENERGY-HUNTINGTON PLANT | HUNTINGTON | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 186k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 80 tank facilities in Emery: 38 tanks in service and 208 closed. 64 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Emery 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Emery, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BUCKHORN WASH UNDERGROUND SITE #8CASTLE DALE
- HUNTINGTON DRUM SITEHUNTINGTON