Albemarle County, VA
The federal environmental record for Albemarle County (population 115,676): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
1
TRI facilities
14
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood Chemical Co. | Newtown | on the NPL | 07/22/1987 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Albemarle 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 Albemarle filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 12 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP | CHARLOTTESVILLE | Lead | 12 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 318 tank facilities in Albemarle: 199 tanks in service and 829 closed. 214 fuel releases are on record, of which 14 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Albemarle 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 Albemarle, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALBEMARLE DUMP #2CHARLOTTESVILLE
- CROZET TOWNSHIP ORCHARD SITECROZET
- GREENWOOD CHEMICAL COGREENWOOD