Lewis County, WV
The federal environmental record for Lewis County (population 16,500): 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
13
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lewis 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 Lewis filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 222k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| LATHAM POOL PRODUCTS INC D/B/A VIKING POOLS-WV | JANE LEW | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 188k lb |
| LIGHTBURN EXTRACTION PLANT | JANE LEW | Formaldehyde, Ethylene glycol | 32k lb |
| MULTI-CHEM GROUP JANE LEW WV FACILITY | JANE LEW | Methanol | 2k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 127 tank facilities in Lewis: 44 tanks in service and 326 closed. 68 fuel releases are on record, of which 13 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lewis 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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