Montgomery County, VA
The federal environmental record for Montgomery County (population 98,666): 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
7
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Montgomery 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)
7 facilities in Montgomery filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 11.4M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. ARMY RADFORD ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT | RADFORD | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitroglycerin | 11.3M lb |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP (NEW RIVER ENERGETICS) | RADFORD | Nitroglycerin, Diphenylamine | 47k lb |
| WOLVERINE ADVANCED MATERIALS | BLACKSBURG | Toluene, Methyl isobutyl ketone | 41k lb |
| WOLVERINE ADVANCED MATERIALS | BLACKSBURG | Toluene, Methyl isobutyl ketone | 14k lb |
| FEDERAL MOGUL POWERTRAIN LLC. | BLACKSBURG | Aluminum (fume or dust), Lead | 6k lb |
| MOOG INC. | BLACKSBURG | Lead | 28 lb |
| PROCHEM INC | ELLISTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 237 tank facilities in Montgomery: 201 tanks in service and 631 closed. 161 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Montgomery 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 Montgomery, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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