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California Environmental Profile

Comprehensive environmental data from EPA sources for California (CA)

Overview

TRI Facilities
1,127
Water Systems
3,077
Superfund Sites
116
Total Violations
17,550
Total Releases
36.9M lbs
Health Violations
1,274
water systems

Largest Polluters

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# Facility Total Releases
1 CLEAN HARBORS BUTTONWILLOW LLC 8.1M lbs
2 CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT INC 4.0M lbs
3 CHEVRON PRODUCTS CO. DIV OF CHEVRON USA INC. 2.1M lbs
4 ECOBAT RESOURCES CALIFORNIA INC. 2.0M lbs
5 TESLA INC 1.5M lbs
6 MP MINE OPERATIONS LLC 1.4M lbs
7 TESORO LOS ANGELES REFINERY-CARSON OPERATIONS 955.8K lbs
8 US PIPE & FOUNDRY CO LLC 940.9K lbs
9 MARTINEZ REFINING CO LLC 857.0K lbs
10 PHILLIPS 66 RODEO RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPLEX 711.4K lbs
11 PROCTER & GAMBLE MFG. CO. 629.8K lbs
12 WM BOLTHOUSE FARMS INC 602.3K lbs
13 CHEVRON PRODUCTS CO RICHMOND REFINERY 571.1K lbs
14 US MARINE CORPS MCB CAMP PENDLETON 561.6K lbs
15 AIR PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING LLC 485.8K lbs
16 VALERO REFINING CO-CALI FORNIA BENICIA REFINERY 394.1K lbs
17 BAE SYSTEMS SAN DIEGO SHIP REPAIR 364.2K lbs
18 CEMEX CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PACIFIC LLC 361.9K lbs
19 SAPUTO CHEESE USA INC 288.9K lbs
20 PHILLIPS 66 LOS ANGELES REFINERY WILMINGTON PLANT 285.6K lbs

Water Quality

Systems with Health Violations

Water System Population Violations
CAL AM - OAKHURST 3,693 368
CAL AM - RAYMOND 343 364
CSA 70 W-4 PIONEERTOWN 470 284
Grindstone Rancheria 150 234
NORTH EDWARDS WD 1,105 203
US ARMY FORT IRWIN 15,701 180
PAPPAS & CO (MENDOTA) 36 176
DEL ORO RIVER ISLAND SERV TERR #1 1,280 176
HARRIS FARMS HEADQUARTERS 140 174
LINDSAY, CITY OF 12,659 173
COLUSA CO. WWD #1 - GRIMES 512 135
IRONWOOD CAMP 210 134
ARVIN COMMUNITY SERVICES DIST 19,669 133
LANARE COMMUNITY SERVICES DIST 540 120
CARUTHERS COMM SERV DIST 2,613 120
KETTLEMAN CITY CSD 1,242 120
LEMOORE, CITY OF 27,185 119
KNOLL ENTERPRISES 500 119
LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO. 2,800 117
BAR-LEN MWC 126 114

Cities with Water Issues

Los Angeles
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West Hollywood
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Compton
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Downey
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Hawthorne
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Buena Park
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Artesia
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Victorville
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Long Beach
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Signal Hill
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Bakersfield
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Arcadia
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Pasadena
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Valencia
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Santa Clarita
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Azusa
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Chino
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Corona
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Rancho Cucamonga
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El Monte
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Superfund Sites (116)

Site Name Status HRS Score
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. NPL Site 37.93
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Building 915) NPL Site 31.94
Aerojet General Corp. NPL Site 54.63
Afterthought Mine NPL Site 50.00
Alameda Naval Air Station NPL Site 50.00
Alark Hard Chrome NPL Site 50.50
AMCO Chemical NPL Site 50.00
Applied Materials NPL Site 31.94
Argonaut Mine NPL Site 58.31
Atlas Asbestos Mine NPL Site 45.55
Barstow Marine Corps Logistics Base NPL Site 37.93
Beckman Instruments (Porterville Plant) Deleted NPL Site 34.21
Blue Ledge Mine NPL Site 50.28
Brown & Bryant, Inc. (Arvin Plant) NPL Site 53.36
Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base NPL Site 33.79
Casmalia Resources NPL Site 30.00
Castle Air Force Base (6 Areas) NPL Site 37.93
Celtor Chemical Works Deleted NPL Site 30.31
Coalinga Asbestos Mine Deleted NPL Site 45.55
Coast Wood Preserving NPL Site 44.73
Concord Naval Weapons Station NPL Site 50.00
Cooper Drum Company NPL Site 50.00
Copper Bluff Mine NPL Site 50.00
Crazy Horse Sanitary Landfill NPL Site 37.93
CTS Printex, Inc. NPL Site 33.62
Del Amo NPL Site 47.12
Del Norte Pesticide Storage Deleted NPL Site 35.79
Edwards Air Force Base NPL Site 33.62
El Toro Marine Corps Air Station NPL Site 37.43
Exide Technologies - Vernon Proposed NPL Site 47.78
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (Mountain View Plant) NPL Site 31.94
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (South San Jose Plant) NPL Site 44.46
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (Salinas Plant) Deleted NPL Site 45.91
Fort Ord NPL Site 42.24
Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill NPL Site 35.57
Frontier Fertilizer NPL Site 35.04
George Air Force Base NPL Site 33.62
Halaco Engineering Company NPL Site 58.31
Hewlett-Packard (620-640 Page Mill Road) NPL Site 29.76
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard NPL Site 48.77
Industrial Waste Processing NPL Site 51.13
Intel Corp. (Mountain View Plant) NPL Site 29.76
Intel Corp. (Santa Clara III) Deleted NPL Site 31.94
Intel Magnetics NPL Site 31.94
Intersil Inc./Siemens Components NPL Site 28.90
Iron Mountain Mine NPL Site 56.16
J.H. Baxter & Co. NPL Site 34.78
JASCO Chemical Corp. Deleted NPL Site 35.36
Jervis B. Webb Co. NPL Site 45.76
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) NPL Site 50.00
Jibboom Junkyard Deleted NPL Site 28.94
Klau/Buena Vista Mine NPL Site 50.00
Koppers Co., Inc. (Oroville Plant) NPL Site 33.73
Laboratory for Energy-Related Health Research/Old Campus Landfill (USDOE) NPL Site 50.00
Lava Cap Mine NPL Site 33.66
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (USDOE) NPL Site 42.24
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Site 300) (USDOE) NPL Site 31.58
Leviathan Mine NPL Site 50.00
Liquid Gold Oil Corp. Deleted NPL Site 43.32
Lorentz Barrel & Drum Co. NPL Site 33.94
Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Deleted NPL Site 33.73
March Air Force Base NPL Site 31.94
Mather Air Force Base NPL Site 28.90
McClellan Air Force Base (Ground Water Contamination) NPL Site 57.93
McColl NPL Site 41.77
McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Co. NPL Site 74.86
MGM Brakes Deleted NPL Site 34.70
Modesto Ground Water Contamination NPL Site 28.90
Moffett Naval Air Station NPL Site 29.49
Monolithic Memories NPL Site 35.57
Montrose Chemical Corp. NPL Site 32.10
National Semiconductor Corp. NPL Site 35.57
New Idria Mercury Mine NPL Site 31.66
Newmark Ground Water Contamination NPL Site 35.57
Norton Air Force Base NPL Site 39.65
Omega Chemical Corporation NPL Site 30.94
Operating Industries, Inc., Landfill NPL Site 57.22
Orange County North Basin NPL Site 50.00
Pacific Coast Pipe Lines NPL Site 46.01
Pemaco Maywood NPL Site 45.23
Purity Oil Sales, Inc. NPL Site 43.27
Ralph Gray Trucking Co. Deleted NPL Site 35.04
Raytheon Corp. NPL Site 29.76
Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant NPL Site 63.94
Rockets, Fireworks, and Flares (RFF) NPL Site 50.00
Sacramento Army Depot NPL Site 44.46
San Fernando Valley (Area 1) NPL Site 42.24
San Fernando Valley (Area 2) NPL Site 42.24
San Fernando Valley (Area 3) Deleted NPL Site 42.24
San Fernando Valley (Area 4) NPL Site 35.57
San Gabriel Valley (Area 1) NPL Site 42.24
San Gabriel Valley (Area 2) NPL Site 42.24
San Gabriel Valley (Area 3) NPL Site 28.90
San Gabriel Valley (Area 4) NPL Site 28.90
Selma Treating Co. NPL Site 48.83
Sharpe Army Depot NPL Site 42.24
Sola Optical USA, Inc. Deleted NPL Site 33.39
South Bay Asbestos Area NPL Site 44.68
Southern Avenue Industrial Area NPL Site 50.00
Southern California Edison Co. (Visalia Poleyard) Deleted NPL Site 48.91
Spectra-Physics, Inc. NPL Site 37.20
Stoker Company Proposed NPL Site 70.94
Stringfellow NPL Site 0.00
Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine NPL Site 44.42
Synertek, Inc. (Building 1) NPL Site 31.94
T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition Co. Deleted NPL Site 42.24
Teledyne Semiconductor NPL Site 35.35
Tracy Defense Depot (USARMY) NPL Site 37.16
Travis Air Force Base NPL Site 29.49
TRW Microwave, Inc. (Building 825) NPL Site 31.94
United Heckathorn Co. NPL Site 38.49
Valley Wood Preserving, Inc. NPL Site 32.01
Waste Disposal, Inc. NPL Site 34.60
Watkins-Johnson Co. (Stewart Division Plant) NPL Site 28.90
Western Pacific Railroad Co. Deleted NPL Site 39.79
Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Sunnyvale Plant) NPL Site 39.93

Counties (53 total)

County Population Facilities
Los Angeles — 334
San Bernardino — 100
Orange — 97
San Diego — 76
Santa Clara — 47
Riverside — 47
Alameda — 39
Fresno — 35
Contra Costa — 35
San Joaquin — 33
Kern — 33
Stanislaus — 27
Sacramento — 19
Tulare — 21
Ventura — 19
Solano — 16
Merced — 15
Sonoma — 11
San Luis Obispo — 11
Placer — 11

Showing top 20 counties by environmental activity. California has 53 counties total.

Largest Cities

Los Angeles
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37 facilities · 26 water systems
Vernon
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10 facilities · 1 water systems
Commerce
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9 facilities · 0 water systems
West Hollywood
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1 facilities · 1 water systems
City Of Commerce
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1 facilities · 0 water systems
Rosewood
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1 facilities · 0 water systems
Bell
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1 facilities · 0 water systems
Bell Gardens
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1 facilities · 0 water systems
Compton
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6 facilities · 2 water systems
Rancho Dominguez
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1 facilities · 0 water systems
East Rancho Dominguez
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1 facilities · 0 water systems
Downey
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2 facilities · 9 water systems
El Segundo
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4 facilities · 1 water systems
Gardena
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13 facilities · 0 water systems
Hawthorne
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3 facilities · 5 water systems
South Gate
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13 facilities · 1 water systems
Huntington Park
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3 facilities · 3 water systems
Lynwood
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1 facilities · 1 water systems
Manhattan Beach
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1 facilities · 1 water systems
Redondo Beach
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1 facilities · 1 water systems

About This Data

This page aggregates environmental data from three EPA programs for California: the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) for industrial chemical releases, the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) for water quality, and the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) for hazardous waste cleanup sites.

PlainEnviro presents this data without advocacy framing. Numbers reflect reported data and may not capture all environmental activity. For specific health or environmental concerns, contact your state environmental agency.