Grays Harbor County, WA
The federal environmental record for Grays Harbor County (population 77,290): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
68
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Grays Harbor 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 Grays Harbor filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 72k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANELTECH | HOQUIAM | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 28k lb |
| SPI ABERDEEN-GRAYS HARBOR | ABERDEEN | Ammonia, Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds | 19k lb |
| ASCENSUS SPECIALTIES LLC | ELMA | Methanol | 16k lb |
| REG GRAYS HARBOR LLC | HOQUIAM | Methanol | 8k lb |
| WESTPORT LLC | WESTPORT | Styrene | 755 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 358 tank facilities in Grays Harbor: 145 tanks in service and 795 closed. 73 fuel releases are on record, of which 68 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Grays Harbor 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 Grays Harbor, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- LITTLE HOQUIAM BOAT SHOP 2HOQUIAM
- USCG GRAYS HARBOR LIGHTHOUSEWESTPORT
- USDA FS OLYMPIC NF: QUINAULT OFFICE PACIFIC RANGER DISTR-SOUTHQUINAULT