Halifax County, VA
The federal environmental record for Halifax County (population 33,432): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
7
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Halifax 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)
5 facilities in Halifax filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 324k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLOVER POWER STATION | CLOVER | Barium And Barium Compounds, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 173k lb |
| HUBER ENGINEERED WOODS LLC | CRYSTAL HILL | Methanol, Phenol | 90k lb |
| AQUATIC CO | SOUTH BOSTON | Styrene | 48k lb |
| HITACHI ENERGY USA INC. | SOUTH BOSTON | Methanol, Copper | 13k lb |
| VOESTALPINE HIGH PERFORMANCE METALS - SOUTH BOSTON PLANT | SOUTH BOSTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 282 tank facilities in Halifax: 134 tanks in service and 710 closed. 68 fuel releases are on record, of which 7 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Halifax 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 Halifax, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ACORN ROAD SITENATHALIE
- HALIFAX COUNTY BIOMASSSOUTH BOSTON
- SHILOH CHURCH ROAD SITENATHALIE