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Mason County, WA

The federal environmental record for Mason County (population 68,389): 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

1

PFAS-detecting water systems

1

TRI facilities

27

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

Public water systems serving Mason 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
LAKE CUSHMAN SYSTEM 5

WA5303529

PFPeA: 6.3 ng/L

PFHxA: 4.6 ng/L

detected

On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)

1 facilities in Mason filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 0 lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES - SHELTONSHELTONDioxin and dioxin-like compounds0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 179 tank facilities in Mason: 106 tanks in service and 397 closed. 32 fuel releases are on record, of which 27 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Mason 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.

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