Portsmouth city, VA

The federal environmental record for Portsmouth city (population 96,793): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

Site	City	Status	Listed
Abex Corp.	Portsmouth	on the NPL	08/30/1990
Atlantic Wood Industries, Inc.	Portsmouth	on the NPL	02/21/1990
Norfolk Naval Shipyard	Portsmouth	on the NPL	07/22/1999
Peck Iron and Metal	Portsmouth	on the NPL	11/04/2009

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Portsmouth 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.

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 271 tank facilities in Portsmouth: 165 tanks in service and 693 closed. 168 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Portsmouth 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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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Portsmouth, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

ABEX CORP.PORTSMOUTH
ATLANTIC WOOD INDUSTRIES, INC.PORTSMOUTH
HERC WAREHOUSE FIRE SITEPORTSMOUTH
NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARDPORTSMOUTH
PECK IRON AND METALPORTSMOUTH
US NAVY - CRANEY ISLAND - FUEL TERMINALPORTSMOUTH
US NAVY - NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTHPORTSMOUTH