Rockingham County, VA
The federal environmental record for Rockingham County (population 86,568): 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
9
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Rockingham 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)
9 facilities in Rockingham filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 325k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS INC | DAYTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 140k lb |
| VPGC LLC HINTON FACILITY | HINTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 80k lb |
| MOLSON COORS SHENANDOAH BREWERY | ELKTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 34k lb |
| WWF OPERATING CO LLC | MOUNT CRAWFORD | Ammonia, n-Hexane | 23k lb |
| PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP BROADWAY FACILITY | TIMBERVILLE | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 21k lb |
| MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC | ELKTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Methanol | 16k lb |
| DARLING INGREDIENTS INC LINVILLE FACILITY | LINVILLE | Chlorine | 10k lb |
| GEORGE'S FOODS LLC. PROCESSING PLANT | HARRISONBURG | Peracetic acid | 1k lb |
| VPGC LLC BROADWAY FEEDMIL | BROADWAY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 297 tank facilities in Rockingham: 161 tanks in service and 753 closed. 141 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Rockingham 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 Rockingham, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- MAIN STREET COMMERCIAL BUILDINGTIMBERVILLE