Bedford, VA
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Bedford in Virginia · Population: 80,254
Bedford, VA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 4 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 19 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 41/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 2.9M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 9 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (19)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA) | 38,794 | 6 |
| MONTVALE WATER, INC. | 698 | 0 |
| PARK PLACE | 501 | 0 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW SHORES | 490 | 0 |
| KNOLL WOODS/IVY ACRES | 360 | 2 |
| STEWARTSVILLE CONSECUTIVE | 340 | 1 |
| LOMA RICA WATER COMPANY | 200 | 0 |
| TIMBER RIDGE SUBDIVISION | 110 | 0 |
| IDLEWOOD SHORES | 100 | 0 |
| LYNVILLE ON THE LAKE | 90 | 2 |
| WOODHAVEN NURSING HOME | 75 | 2 |
| VALLEY MILLS CROSSING | 70 | 0 |
| NININGER WATERWORKS | 62 | 0 |
| PARADISE POINT ESTATES | 60 | 2 |
| FAIRFIELD MOBILE HOME PARK | 60 | 0 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY | 45 | 1 |
| STALLION RUN ESTATES | 35 | 1 |
| HARBOR RIDGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC | 30 | 0 |
| SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE WTP | 0 | 1 |
TRI Facilities (4)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gp Big Island LLC | 2.4M lbs |
| 2 | Wheelabrator Abrasives Inc | 479.9K lbs |
| 3 | Custom Truck One Source | 3.1K lbs |
| 4 | Prowood LLC Moneta | 0 lbs |
Cities in Bedford (4)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.