Whitman County, WA
The federal environmental record for Whitman County (population 48,012): 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
3
TRI facilities
28
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Whitman 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)
3 facilities in Whitman filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 206 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEMAN OIL CO STATELINE PLANT | PULLMAN | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 197 lb |
| SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES INC | PULLMAN | Lead, Copper | 6 lb |
| POE ASPHALT PAVING INC. | PULLMAN | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 3 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 307 tank facilities in Whitman: 56 tanks in service and 611 closed. 28 fuel releases are on record, of which 28 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Whitman as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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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