Hanover County, VA
The federal environmental record for Hanover County (population 114,148): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
8
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| H & H Inc., Burn Pit | Farrington | on the NPL | 03/31/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hanover 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 Hanover filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 550k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOSWELL LP | ASHLAND | Ammonia, n-Hexane | 454k lb |
| SOUTH ATLANTIC GALVANIZING LLC | ASHLAND | Zinc compounds, Lead | 91k lb |
| CHEMTREAT INC | ASHLAND | Zinc compounds | 3k lb |
| COMMONWEALTH GALVANIZING | ASHLAND | Zinc compounds | 2k lb |
| CONCRETE PIPE & PRECAST LLC-HANOVER PIPE PLANT | ASHLAND | Lead | 168 lb |
| CONCRETE PIPE & PRECAST LLC-ASHLAND PRECAST PLANT | ASHLAND | Lead | 161 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | DOSWELL | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
| CASCADES BEAR ISLAND MILL | ASHLAND | - | 0 lb |
| PUGH LUBRICANTS ASHLAND | ASHLAND | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 450 tank facilities in Hanover: 265 tanks in service and 1,066 closed. 195 fuel releases are on record, of which 8 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hanover as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Hanover, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CASCADES BEAR ISLAND MILLASHLAND
- H & H INC., BURN PITFARRINGTON
- MONTGOMERY TANK LINES SODIUM HYDROSULFITE E.R.DOSWELL