Franklin County, VT
The federal environmental record for Franklin County (population 50,994): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
59
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Franklin 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)
8 facilities in Franklin filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 14k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ST ALBANS CREAMERY LLC | SAINT ALBANS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 8k lb |
| FRANKLIN FOODS | ENOSBURG FALLS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 5k lb |
| MYLAN TECHNOLOGIES INC | SAINT ALBANS | Toluene | 811 lb |
| PERRIGO NUTRITIONALS | GEORGIA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 690 lb |
| WESTROCK CONVERTING LLC | SHELDON SPRINGS | Lead And Lead Compounds | 9 lb |
| AGWAY INC ST ALBANS FEED MILL | SAINT ALBANS | - | 0 lb |
| BEN & JERRY'S HOMEMADE INC ST ALBANS | SAINT ALBANS | - | 0 lb |
| CARGILL FEED & NUTRITION SWANTON | SWANTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 202 tank facilities in Franklin: 150 tanks in service and 603 closed. 149 fuel releases are on record, of which 59 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Franklin 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 - $39