James City County, VA
The federal environmental record for James City County (population 82,654): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving James City 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 James City filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 587k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL METAL BEVERAGE CONTAINER CORP | WILLIAMSBURG | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 563k lb |
| ANHEUSER-BUSCH LLC | WILLIAMSBURG | Ammonia, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 12k lb |
| GREYSTONE OF VIRGINIA INC | TOANO | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Lead And Lead Compounds | 11k lb |
| OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC PLANT 26 | TOANO | Lead compounds | 28 lb |
| BRANSCOME-LEE HALL | WILLIAMSBURG | Lead compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 147 tank facilities in James City: 106 tanks in service and 290 closed. 71 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps James City 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.
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