Bennington County, VT
The federal environmental record for Bennington County (population 37,183): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
5
Superfund NPL sites
12
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
1
TRI facilities
19
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennington Municipal Sanitary Landfill | Bennington | on the NPL | 03/31/1989 |
| Burgess Brothers Landfill | Woodford | on the NPL | 03/31/1989 |
| Jard Company, Inc. | Bennington | on the NPL | 09/22/2014 |
| Pownal Tannery | Pownal | on the NPL | 01/19/1999 |
| Tansitor Electronics, Inc. | Bennington | deleted | 10/04/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bennington 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 Bennington filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 11k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANSITOR ELECTRONICS INC | BENNINGTON | Ethylene glycol, 1-Bromopropane | 11k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 216 tank facilities in Bennington: 102 tanks in service and 564 closed. 127 fuel releases are on record, of which 19 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bennington 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 Bennington, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BARLOW GRAVEL PITPOWNAL
- BENNINGTON MUNICIPAL SANITARY LANDFILLBENNINGTON
- BUCKLEY DRIVE WATERLINEBENNINGTON
- BURGESS BROTHERS C&D CLOSED LANDFILLSBENNINGTON/WOODFORD
- BURGESS BROTHERS LANDFILLWOODFORD
- JARD COMPANY, INC.BENNINGTON
- KOCHER DRIVE DUMPBENNINGTON
- POWNAL TANNING SITEPOWNAL
- ROUTE 279 EASTBENNINGTON
- TANSITOR ELECTRONICS, INC.BENNINGTON
- VERMONT COLOR PHOTO LABBENNINGTON
- VERMONT MILL PROPERTYBENNINGTON