James City, 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 James City in Virginia · Population: 80,046
James City, VA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 5 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 15 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 26/100 (Low Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 3.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 1 water system carries 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 (15)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| JCSA - CENTRAL SYSTEM | 57,726 | 0 |
| WILLIAMSBURG, CITY OF | 16,300 | 0 |
| WOODHAVEN SHORES | 1,365 | 0 |
| SEDLEY | 486 | 0 |
| WEXFORD HILLS - JCSA | 360 | 0 |
| WARE CREEK MANOR - JCSA | 161 | 0 |
| RETREAT (JCSA) | 139 | 0 |
| LIBERTY RIDGE | 127 | 0 |
| KINGS VILLAGE - JCSA | 124 | 0 |
| RACEFIELD - JCSA | 89 | 0 |
| GLENWOOD ACRES-JCSA | 82 | 0 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW RV WEST | 75 | 7 |
| WESTPORT | 72 | 0 |
| GWYNNS ISLAND CONDO | 50 | 0 |
| BROOKS` DUPLEXES | 29 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (5)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp | 2.9M lbs |
| 2 | Anheuser-Busch LLC | 109.6K lbs |
| 3 | Greystone of Virginia Inc | 62.8K lbs |
| 4 | Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc Plant 26 | 923 lbs |
| 5 | Branscome-Lee Hall | 2 lbs |
Cities in James City (2)
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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.