Uintah County, UT
The federal environmental record for Uintah County (population 37,747): 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
7
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Uintah 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 Uintah filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 694k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BONANZA POWER PLANT | VERNAL | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Manganese compounds | 682k lb |
| CHIPETA GAS PLANT | VERNAL | Toluene, n-Hexane | 4k lb |
| CHAMPIONX-VERNAL 0408 | VERNAL | Methanol, Ethylene glycol | 3k lb |
| RELADYNE WEST LLC | BALLARD | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 2k lb |
| IRONHORSE COMPLEX | VERNAL | n-Hexane, Toluene | 2k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 187 tank facilities in Uintah: 65 tanks in service and 374 closed. 134 fuel releases are on record, of which 7 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Uintah 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 Uintah, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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