Henrico County, VA
The federal environmental record for Henrico County (population 334,760): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
7
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rentokil, Inc. (Virginia Wood Preserving Division) | Richmond | on the NPL | 03/31/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Henrico 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)
10 facilities in Henrico filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 33k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEPPIC INC. | SANDSTON | tert-Butyl alcohol | 16k lb |
| STERILIZATION SERVICES OF VIRGINIA | HENRICO | Ethylene oxide | 9k lb |
| ENNIS-FLINT RICHMOND | RICHMOND | Methanol | 5k lb |
| IR ENGRAVING LLC | SANDSTON | Lead, Copper | 3k lb |
| SOUTHERN GRAPHIC SYSTEMS LLC | SANDSTON | Copper And Copper Compounds | 813 lb |
| MECHANICSVILLE CONCRETE LLC | RICHMOND | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 47 lb |
| MECHANICSVILLE CONCRETE LLC-AIRPORT PLANT (OAKLEYS LANE) | HENRICO | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 46 lb |
| DARBYTOWN POWER STATION | HENRICO | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
| JOHNS MANVILLE CORP HAMILTON PLANT | RICHMOND | - | 0 lb |
| SMYRNA READY MIX CONCRETE PLANT 780 RICHMOND | RICHMOND | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 719 tank facilities in Henrico: 516 tanks in service and 1,700 closed. 429 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Henrico 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 Henrico, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ARMY AVIATION SUPPORT FACILITYSANDSTON
- RENTOKIL, INC. (VIRGINIA WOOD PRESERVING DIVISION)RICHMOND
- SANDSTON CHLOROPICRIN RESPONSESANDSTON
- SANDSTON PCE SITESANDSTON
- THE MILLWORK SPECIALIST LLCRICHMOND
- VAARNG-FMS 1 AND FMS 2SANDSTON
- VIRGINIA AIR NATIONAL GUARDSANDSTON