Fayette County, WV
The federal environmental record for Fayette County (population 39,072): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
1
TRI facilities
17
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaffer Equipment/Arbuckle Creek Area | Minden | on the NPL | 05/15/2019 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Fayette 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)
1 facilities in Fayette filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 454k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WVA MANUFACTURING LLC | ALLOY | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 454k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 230 tank facilities in Fayette: 100 tanks in service and 587 closed. 92 fuel releases are on record, of which 17 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Fayette 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 Fayette, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ELKEM METALSALLOY
- SHAFFER EQUIP COMINDEN
- SHAFFER EQUIPMENT/ARBUCKLE CREEK AREAMINDEN