Roanoke city, VA
The federal environmental record for Roanoke city (population 97,171): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
2
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
14
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Caverns County Landfill | Salem | deleted | 10/04/1989 |
| Matthews Electroplating | Roanoke County | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Roanoke 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)
14 facilities in Roanoke filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 45k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEW MILLENNIUM BUILDING SYSTEMS | SALEM | Certain glycol ethers, Manganese | 37k lb |
| KOPPERS INC (ROANOKE) | SALEM | Creosote, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 3k lb |
| ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA - NIGHT VISION LLC | ROANOKE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1k lb |
| MARVIN COMPOSITES | SALEM | Styrene | 1k lb |
| YOKOHAMA TIRE MANUFACTURING VIRGINIA LLC | SALEM | Zinc compounds, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 714 lb |
| SAFETY-KLEEN SYSTEMS VINTON (ROA) | VINTON | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 552 lb |
| MEDECO SECURITY LOCKS INC. | SALEM | Nickel, Copper | 437 lb |
| GRAHAM-WHITE MANUFACTURING CO. | SALEM | Copper | 30 lb |
| CARDINAL GLASS | VINTON | - | 0 lb |
| CARGILL FEED & NUTRITION ROANOKE | VINTON | - | 0 lb |
| SEMCO INC | ROANOKE | - | 0 lb |
| KIK (VIRGINIA) LLC | SALEM | - | 0 lb |
| NOVOZYMES | SALEM | - | 0 lb |
| MENNEL MILLING CO OF VIRGINIA | ROANOKE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 510 tank facilities in Roanoke: 245 tanks in service and 1,297 closed. 260 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Roanoke 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 Roanoke, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- NAVAL AND MARINE RESERVE CENTERROANOKE
- ROANOKE MULTI-AGENCY FSEROANOKE