Kanawha County, WV
The federal environmental record for Kanawha County (population 174,805): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
16
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
19
TRI facilities
65
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Kanawha 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)
19 facilities in Kanawha filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 780k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEMOURS BELLE PLANT | BELLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Sodium nitrite | 506k lb |
| ALTIVIA INSTITUTE FACILITIES | DUNBAR | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Methyl isobutyl ketone | 89k lb |
| UNION CARBIDE CORP SOUTH CHARLESTON FACILITY | SOUTH CHARLESTON | Ethylene glycol, n-Butyl alcohol | 50k lb |
| ARCLIN AMINES | BELLE | Ammonia, N,N-Dimethylformamide | 34k lb |
| UNION CARBIDE CORP TECHNOLOGY PARK OPERATIONS | SOUTH CHARLESTON | Ethylene, Propylene | 32k lb |
| INNOVATIVE WATER CARE LLC | SOUTH CHARLESTON | Chlorine, Ammonia | 18k lb |
| US METHANOL LLC LIBERTY ONE METHANOL PLANT | NITRO | Methanol | 14k lb |
| PURETECH SCIENTIFIC LLC | BELLE | Formic acid, Methanol | 12k lb |
| PANTHER CREEK - SAMPLES | ESKDALE | Ammonia | 9k lb |
| SPECIALTY PRODUCTS US LLC - POLYOX PLANT | INSTITUTE | Ammonia, Ethylene oxide | 4k lb |
| LANXESS CORP | DUNBAR | Methanol | 3k lb |
| COVESTRO LLC | SOUTH CHARLESTON | Styrene, Propylene oxide | 3k lb |
| UNION CARBIDE CORP INSTITUTE FACILITY | INSTITUTE | Ammonia, Ethylene oxide | 3k lb |
| UNIVATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC | SOUTH CHARLESTON | Toluene | 2k lb |
| KUREHA PGA LLC | BELLE | n-Hexane, Formic acid | 2k lb |
| COBB GAS PLANT | CLENDENIN | n-Hexane | 289 lb |
| CATALYST REFINERS INC | NITRO | Nitric acid, Silver And Silver Compounds | 130 lb |
| BRENNTAG MID-SOUTH INC. | NITRO | Chlorine | 6 lb |
| OPTIMA BELLE LLC | BELLE | Certain glycol ethers | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 838 tank facilities in Kanawha: 383 tanks in service and 2,109 closed. 413 fuel releases are on record, of which 65 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Kanawha 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Kanawha, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CATALYST REFINERS INCNITRO
- CGST COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPCHARLESTON
- COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION - COBB STATIONCLENDENIN
- DIXIE STREET MERCURYCHARLESTON
- DONS DISPOSAL SERVICE INCCHARLESTON
- DUNBAR CITY LANDFILLDUNBAR
- FILLMONT LANDFILLSOUTH CHARLESTON
- FLEXSYS/SOLUTIA PLANT (KANAWAH RIVER VALLEY ASSESSMENTS)NITRO
- GESTAMP WEST VIRGINIA, LLCCHARLESTON
- LIBBEY OWENS FORD PLANTCHARLESTON
- OLD AVTEX LANDFILLNITRO
- PENNZOIL CO - ELK REFINERYFALLING ROCK
- ST. ALBANS TRAILER PARKST. ALBANS
- THE CHEMOURS CO LLC - BELLE FACILITYBELLE
- WEST VIRGINIA AIR NATIONAL GUARD 130TH AIRLIFT GROUPCHARLESTON
- WEST VIRGINIA CHEMICAL LEAKCHARLESTON