Richmond city, VA
The federal environmental record for Richmond city (population 229,247): 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
5
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Richmond 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 Richmond filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 102k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONDELEZ GLOBAL LLC | RICHMOND | Ammonia | 91k lb |
| STELLA-JONES CORP | WARSAW | Arsenic And Arsenic Compounds, Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 10k lb |
| SONOCO RICHMOND | RICHMOND | Lead | 577 lb |
| QUARLES FUELS - WARSAW OIL PLANT | WARSAW | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lb |
| DOMINION - NORTHERN NECK COMBUSTION TURBINE STATIO | WARSAW | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 67 tank facilities in Richmond: 33 tanks in service and 169 closed. 10 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Richmond 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 Richmond, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CHESAPEAKE BIO-FUEL CO.RICHMOND