Yakima County, WA
The federal environmental record for Yakima County (population 256,643): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
3
Superfund NPL sites
11
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
110
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| FMC Corp. (Yakima) | Yakima | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
| Pesticide Lab (Yakima) | Yakima | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
| Yakima Plating Co. | Yakima | deleted | 03/31/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Yakima 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)
10 facilities in Yakima filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 536k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ULTRA YIELD MICRONUTRIENTS | MOXEE | Zinc compounds, Lead compounds | 309k lb |
| MCCLARIN PLASTICS LLC | WAPATO | Styrene | 101k lb |
| DARIGOLD - SUNNYSIDE | SUNNYSIDE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 81k lb |
| YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER- RANGE | YAKIMA | Copper, Lead And Lead Compounds | 39k lb |
| TREE TOP INC - SELAH SPRAYFIELD | SELAH | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 5k lb |
| PACE INTERNATIONAL LLC | WAPATO | Diphenylamine | 78 lb |
| WASHINGTON BEEF LLC | TOPPENISH | - | 0 lb |
| YAKIMA BAIT CO/WORDEN'S LURE | GRANGER | - | 0 lb |
| CARGILL FEED & NUTRITION GRANGER | GRANGER | - | 0 lb |
| TREE TOP INC SELAH PLANT | SELAH | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 826 tank facilities in Yakima: 344 tanks in service and 1,924 closed. 161 fuel releases are on record, of which 110 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Yakima 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Yakima, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- FMC YAKIMAYAKIMA
- NOB HILL MERCURYYAKIMA
- US DOI FT SIMCOE JOB CORP CTRWHITE SWAN
- USDA FS WENATCHEE NF: GRANITE LK PROSPECTNACHES
- USDA USFS R06 CHINOOK PASS WORK CTRNACHES
- USDA USFS R06 WHITE PASS WORK CTRNACHES
- USDOI BIA SIGNAL PEAK RANGER STATIONTOPPENISH
- WHITE SWAN FIRE RESPONSEWHITE SWAN
- YAKIMA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORYYAKIMA
- YAKIMA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORYYAKIMA
- YAKIMA PLATING CO.YAKIMA