Pend Oreille County, WA
The federal environmental record for Pend Oreille County (population 14,361): 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
2
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Pend Oreille 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)
2 facilities in Pend Oreille filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAFRAN CABIN MATERIALS LLC | NEWPORT | Methanol, Phenol | 2k lb |
| PEND OREILLE MINE | METALINE FALLS | Methanol | 153 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 60 tank facilities in Pend Oreille: 25 tanks in service and 118 closed. 4 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Pend Oreille 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 Pend Oreille, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- GRANDVIEW MINEMETALINE FALLS
- USDA FS COLVILLE NF: ORIOLE MINEMETALINE
- USDOI BLM JOSEPHINE MILL #2 AKA NEW JOSEPHINE MILLMETALINE FALLS