EPA TRI Facility · Primary Metals
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings
Lehighton, PA
- Total releases
- 3 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Water Discharges
WATER Form-R mix
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings: how the 3 lbs splits
3 lbs across all reported pathways
- Water Discharges 3 lbs 100.0%
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings's 3 lbs Form-R total is WATER - water discharges is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Copper.
TRACE volume WATER pathway CARC-MID
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Lehighton, PA, in the primary metals sector. It reported 0 lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2024, and 3 lbs in total across its 2019-2024 reporting years. That ranks 19,325 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Pennsylvania's 1,010 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings is pounds #955 and chemical-count #768 at 3 lbs. Max Environmental -- Yukon Facility leads reported pounds (34.8M lbs) at 18 chemicals (chemical-count #24). Keystone Cement Co leads chemical count at 53 chemicals (155.4K lbs, pounds #149). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Kme Corp; Befesa Zinc US Inc.; Airgas Specialty Products-Palmerton Pa; Westchester Plastics LLC. Similar-scale Primary Metals peers outside Pennsylvania: Metal Casting Co; Penn Aluminum; Pace Industries St Paul Div; Accu-Cast Inc. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Copper; Lead.
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings stamps TRACE volume with a dominant WATER pathway (100.0% water discharges) across 2 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 3 lbs (2019–2024). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Metal Casting Co and Penn Aluminum.
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
3 lbs 26th percentile higher than 26% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings in the Primary Metals sector extract
Among the 1,603 Primary Metals facilities in this database, Blue Ridge Pressure Castings reports the 1,384th-largest volume (3 lbs). Scale peers outside Pennsylvania include Metal Casting Co and Penn Aluminum.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Blue Ridge Pressure Castings releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 3 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2024, total releases decreased by 88% (1 lbs to 0 lbs).
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · WATER pathway · TRI years 2019–2024
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
- 2024 0
What this shows Blue Ridge Pressure Castings year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 88% from 2019 to 2024). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Copper.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 lbs | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 lbs | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 lbs | 2 |
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings · WATER-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Blue Ridge Pressure Castings
Closest other reporters in Pennsylvania - including Kme Corp, Befesa Zinc US Inc., Airgas Specialty Products-Palmerton Pa, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 1,009 other reporting facilities in Pennsylvania.
Similar Primary Metals Facilities
Other Primary Metals facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Pennsylvania - e.g. Metal Casting Co, Penn Aluminum, Pace Industries St Paul Div.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Copper, Lead; nearby reporters include Kme Corp. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings stamps TRACE volume · WATER pathway · CARC-MID carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
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This Blue Ridge Pressure Castings TRI extract (TRACE · WATER · CARC-MID · lead Copper) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Lehighton, PA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2024 (6 years). NAICS 331523 · Primary Metals. 0.0% of Carbon TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Analogic Corp (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Blue Ridge Pressure Castings stamps TRACE volume · WATER pathway · CARC-MID · lead Copper. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov