Monongalia County, WV
The federal environmental record for Monongalia County (population 107,718): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
16
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordnance Works Disposal Areas | Morgantown | deleted | 06/10/1986 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Monongalia 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)
8 facilities in Monongalia filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.4M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORT MARTIN POWER STATION | MAIDSVILLE | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Barium And Barium Compounds | 848k lb |
| HUMPHREY NO 7 | MAIDSVILLE | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Manganese compounds | 392k lb |
| LONGVIEW POWER | MAIDSVILLE | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 160k lb |
| SWANSON PLATING CORP INC. | MORGANTOWN | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 8k lb |
| SI GROUP INC -NORTH PLANT | MORGANTOWN | Methanol, Phenol | 7k lb |
| SI GROUP INC - SOUTH PLANT | MORGANTOWN | Nonylphenol, Cresol (mixed isomers) | 645 lb |
| PILOT THOMAS LOGISTICS LLC - MORGANTOWN BULK PLANT | MORGANTOWN | - | 0 lb |
| MOUNTAINTOP BEVERAGE LLC | MORGANTOWN | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 305 tank facilities in Monongalia: 164 tanks in service and 761 closed. 145 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Monongalia as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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 Monongalia, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- MANSFIELD AVENUE RESIDENTIAL SITEMORGANTOWN
- NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CENTERMORGANTOWN
- ORDNANCE WORKS DISPOSAL AREASMORGANTOWN
- RIVER ROAD DRUM SITEMORGANTOWN
- WHITE PARKMORGANTOWN