Botetourt County, VA
The federal environmental record for Botetourt County (population 34,125): 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
9
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Botetourt 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)
9 facilities in Botetourt filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 293k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANOKE CEMENT CO LLC | TROUTVILLE | Hydrogen cyanide, Acetaldehyde | 159k lb |
| DYNAX AMERICA CORP | ROANOKE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Methanol | 129k lb |
| METALSA ROANOKE INC. | ROANOKE | Manganese, Nickel | 3k lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC PLANT 35 & 36 | ROANOKE | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead | 812 lb |
| TREAD CORP | ROANOKE | Chromium, Aluminum (fume or dust) | 450 lb |
| MAAG GALA INC. | EAGLE ROCK | Nickel, Chromium | 428 lb |
| CANATAL STEEL USA | ROANOKE | Manganese | 13 lb |
| MUNTERS CORP - DALEVILLE | DALEVILLE | Zinc compounds, Chromium | 12 lb |
| ALTEC INDUSTRIES INC. | DALEVILLE | Manganese | 2 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 141 tank facilities in Botetourt: 110 tanks in service and 340 closed. 86 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Botetourt 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 Botetourt, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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