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Stafford County, VA

The federal environmental record for Stafford County (population 165,428): 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

1

PFAS-detecting water systems

5

TRI facilities

5

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

Public water systems serving Stafford with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.

SystemHighest resultsReading
STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES

VA6179100

PFOS: 5.7 ng/L

PFPeA: 3 ng/L

PFHxS: 3 ng/L

above final limit

On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)

5 facilities in Stafford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 136k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
U.S. DOJ FBI TRAINING ACADEMYQUANTICOLead And Lead Compounds135k lb
FTG CORP.FREDERICKSBURGCopper, Lead941 lb
VIRGINIA CONCRETE-STAFFORD PLANTSTAFFORDNitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead236 lb
TITAN VIRGINIA READY-MIX LLC-STAFFORD PLANTFALMOUTHNitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds26 lb
MAPEI CORPFREDERICKSBURG-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 225 tank facilities in Stafford: 157 tanks in service and 603 closed. 125 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Stafford 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

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

  • FBI ACADEMYQUANTICO