Pendleton County, WV

The federal environmental record for Pendleton County (population 6,029): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Pendleton 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 Pendleton filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 70k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
GREER INDUSTRIES INC. DBA GREER LIME CO	RIVERTON	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)	70k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 72 tank facilities in Pendleton: 22 tanks in service and 204 closed. 27 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Pendleton 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Pendleton, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

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