Washington County, VA
The federal environmental record for Washington County (population 54,050): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
12
TRI facilities
10
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Washington 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)
12 facilities in Washington filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 75k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN PLASTICS INC. | GLADE SPRING | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 42k lb |
| HAPCO | ABINGDON | Aluminum (fume or dust), Zinc (fume or dust) | 26k lb |
| STRONGWELL CORP HIGHLANDS DIV | ABINGDON | Styrene, Antimony compounds | 6k lb |
| AZZ GALVANIZING-BRISTOL | BRISTOL | Zinc compounds, Lead | 714 lb |
| UTILITY TRAILER MANUFACTURING | GLADE SPRING | Manganese, Chromium | 210 lb |
| W&W-AFCO STEEL LLC | BRISTOL | Manganese | 1 lb |
| METAL CASTING CO | BRISTOL | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lb |
| SHEARERS FOOD LLC | BRISTOL | - | 0 lb |
| MXI ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LLC | ABINGDON | - | 0 lb |
| CARDINAL CG ABINGDON | ABINGDON | - | 0 lb |
| WOLF HILLS FABRICATORS LLC | ABINGDON | - | 0 lb |
| ZENITH FUEL SYSTEMS LLC | BRISTOL | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 244 tank facilities in Washington: 190 tanks in service and 553 closed. 88 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Washington 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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