Orleans County, VT
The federal environmental record for Orleans County (population 27,516): 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
2
TRI facilities
41
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Orleans 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 Orleans filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 154 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIVOLY INC. | DERBY LINE | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 151 lb |
| ETHAN ALLEN OPERATIONS INC ORLEANS DIV | ORLEANS | Lead And Lead Compounds | 3 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 192 tank facilities in Orleans: 106 tanks in service and 470 closed. 125 fuel releases are on record, of which 41 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Orleans 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.
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