Carbon County, WY
The federal environmental record for Carbon County (population 14,334): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
3
TRI facilities
30
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Carbon 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 Carbon filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 403k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF SINCLAIR PARCO REFINING LLC | SINCLAIR | Toluene, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 340k lb |
| ECHO SPRINGS GAS PLANT | CARBON | Benzene, Toluene | 63k lb |
| PEAK ASPHALT LLC RAWLINS PLANT | RAWLINS | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Lead | 43 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 212 tank facilities in Carbon: 95 tanks in service and 509 closed. 102 fuel releases are on record, of which 30 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Carbon 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 Carbon, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BLM-OLD SARATOGA LANDFILLSARATOGA
- BLM-RAWLINS LANDFILLRAWLINS
- HANNA BASIN GROUP (TRONOX)HANNA
- PETROTOMICS MILL (TRONOX)MEDICINE BOW
- WILLIAMS FIELD SVCS BARREL SPRINGS COMPELK MOUNTAIN