Preston, WV
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 Preston in West Virginia · Population: 34,204
Preston, WV is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 6 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 29/100 (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 37.9K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 4 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 (15)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| PRESTON COUNTY PSD 4 | 8,753 | 0 |
| KINGWOOD WATER BOARD | 6,652 | 0 |
| MASON CO PSD-LAKIN DIST | 4,296 | 0 |
| PRESTON COUNTY PSD 1 | 3,455 | 31 |
| MASON CO PSD-LETART | 3,303 | 0 |
| MASONTOWN WATER WORKS | 2,239 | 0 |
| TERRA ALTA WATER WORKS | 1,856 | 4 |
| TUNNELTON TOWN OF | 1,346 | 0 |
| ALPINE LAKE PUBLIC UTILITIES | 1,325 | 0 |
| NEWBURG TOWN OF | 1,116 | 0 |
| ROWLESBURG WATER WORKS | 680 | 16 |
| ALBRIGHT TOWN OF | 317 | 0 |
| PRESTON CO PSD 1 PURCHASER | 291 | 0 |
| ARTHURDALE WATER ASSOC. | 264 | 9 |
| ALYESKA INC | 50 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (6)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | U.S. Army National Guard Camp Dawson | 21.7K lbs |
| 2 | Fcc Hazelton | 10.1K lbs |
| 3 | Superior Fibers | 6.1K lbs |
| 4 | Allegheny Wood Products Inc Mill 5 | 10 lbs |
| 5 | Allegheny Wood Products International Inc Mill #6 | 1 lbs |
| 6 | Oldcastle Lawn & Garden Inc | 0 lbs |
Cities in Preston (3)
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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.