Iron County, UT
The federal environmental record for Iron County (population 64,211): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Iron 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 Iron filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 210k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMCA CEDAR CITY LLC (BMCA) | CEDAR CITY | Diisocyanates, Antimony | 131k lb |
| AMERICAN PACIFIC CORP UTAH OPERATIONS | CEDAR CITY | Lead And Lead Compounds, Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 75k lb |
| WESTERN QUALITY FOODS LLC | CEDAR CITY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 5k lb |
| SUNROC CORP - CEDAR CITY | CEDAR CITY | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Lead | 0 lb |
| STAKER & PARSON- CEDAR CITY FACILITY | CEDAR CITY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 149 tank facilities in Iron: 127 tanks in service and 345 closed. 127 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Iron 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 Iron, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BLM-DESERT MOUND MINECEDAR CITY
- ESCALANTE SILVER MINEBERYL JUNCTION
- OPERATION MINE SHAFTCEDAR CITY
- PAROWAN MINE TAILINGSPAROWAN