EPA TRI Facility · Electric Utilities
Bear Garden Generating Station
New Canton, VA · Parent: Dominion Energy Inc
- Total releases
- 27.5K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 5
- Carcinogens
- 2
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Bear Garden Generating Station: how the 35.0K lbs splits
35.0K lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 35.0K lbs 100.0%
Bear Garden Generating Station's 35.0K lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Ammonia.
Carcinogen-classified pounds vs other reported pounds
Same cumulative TRI total as above, split by EPA/IARC carcinogen classification on each chemical: pounds share, not chemical count. Classification is not a site health-risk score.
LIGHT volume AIR pathway TRACE-CARC
Bear Garden Generating Station is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in New Canton, VA, in the electric utilities sector. It reported 7.6K lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2024, and 27.5K lbs in total across its 2019-2024 reporting years. That ranks 7,518 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Virginia's 434 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Bear Garden Generating Station is pounds #160 and chemical-count #82 at 27.5K lbs. U.S. Army Radford Army Ammunition Plant leads reported pounds (50.1M lbs) at 12 chemicals (chemical-count #15). Axalta Coating Systems USA Llc-Front Royal Plant leads chemical count at 28 chemicals (244.6K lbs, pounds #59). Reported volume fell against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Kyanite Mining Corp Mullite Plant; Tenaska Virginia Partners LP; Northrop Grumman Systems Corp; Old Dominion Electric Co-Op Louisa Generation Facility. Similar-scale Electric Utilities peers outside Virginia: Hamakua Energy Plant; Hammond Steam Electric Generating Plant; Lansing Board of Water & Light-Eckert; Montana Power Station. Other Dominion Energy Inc sites in this extract: Mount Storm Power Station; Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center; Chesterfield Power Station; Clover Power Station. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Ammonia; Polycyclic aromatic compounds; 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene; n-Hexane.
Bear Garden Generating Station stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 5 chemicals · 2 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 27.5K lbs (2019–2024). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Hamakua Energy Plant and Hammond Steam Electric Generating Plant.
Bear Garden Generating Station vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
27K lbs Top 29% higher than 71% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Bear Garden Generating Station inside Buckingham's TRI pounds
Among the 513 Electric Utilities facilities in this database, Bear Garden Generating Station reports the 361st-largest volume (27.5K lbs). This one site accounts for 99.2% of every pound reported in Buckingham. Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Ammonia alone is more than 99.9% of the total. Scale peers outside Virginia include Hamakua Energy Plant and Hammond Steam Electric Generating Plant.
County-dominant here means ≥25% of Buckingham's reported pounds (27.7K lbs county total). Shares only print when the site reports ≥1,000 lbs.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Bear Garden Generating Station's total reported releases fell from 7.0 thousand lb in 2022 to 6.5 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bear Garden Generating Station's chemicals reported fell from 5 in 2022 to 1 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bear Garden Generating Station's air releases fell from 7.0 thousand lb in 2022 to 6.5 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Bear Garden Generating Station Form-R facts
Compare this facility
See how Bear Garden Generating Station stacks up against nearby facilities and the typical reporter.
119.5× more than the comparison
5.0× more than the comparison
Comparison reflects reported pounds and chemical counts, not toxicity or health risk. Averages cover facilities reporting any release.
How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Bear Garden Generating Station releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 35.0K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2024, total releases increased by 50% (5.0K lbs to 7.6K lbs).
Bear Garden Generating Station: annual Form-R pounds
LIGHT site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2024
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
- 2024 0
What this shows Bear Garden Generating Station year-over-year reported totals (increased by 50% 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: Ammonia.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5.0K lbs | 3 |
| 2020 | 8.9K lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 lbs | 4 |
| 2022 | 7.0K lbs | 5 |
| 2023 | 6.5K lbs | 1 |
| 2024 | 7.6K lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2024). 2 of 5 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonia | 35.0K lbs | - |
| Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 1 lbs | Carcinogen |
| 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 0 lbs | - |
| n-Hexane | 0 lbs | - |
| Naphthalene | 0 lbs | Carcinogen |
Bear Garden Generating Station · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Bear Garden Generating Station
Closest other reporters in Virginia - including Kyanite Mining Corp Mullite Plant, Tenaska Virginia Partners LP, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 433 other reporting facilities in Virginia.
Similar Electric Utilities Facilities
Other Electric Utilities facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Virginia - e.g. Hamakua Energy Plant, Hammond Steam Electric Generating Plant, Lansing Board of Water & Light-Eckert.
Compare beyond Virginia
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Bear Garden Generating Station on cumulative reported pounds (27.5K lbs) and distinct chemical count (5). Release-pound peers include Speer Carbon Co LLC, Beretta USA, Associated Milk Producers Inc. Chemical-count peers include Abbvie Ltd, Lilly del Caribe Inc Carolin A, Baxter Healthcare of Puerto Rico LLC. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
Similar reported release pounds
Nearest out-of-state reporters (≥1,000 lbs) by absolute TRI pounds, not same-industry or same-county neighbors.
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Dominion Energy Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Mount Storm Power Station, Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, Chesterfield Power Station.
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 Ammonia, Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene, n-Hexane; nearby reporters include Kyanite Mining Corp Mullite Plant. Bear Garden Generating Station stamps LIGHT volume · AIR pathway · TRACE-CARC carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
Use and verify this record
This Bear Garden Generating Station TRI extract (LIGHT · AIR · TRACE-CARC · lead Ammonia) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Bear Garden Generating Station totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for New Canton, VA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2024 (6 years). NAICS 221112 · Electric Utilities. 99.2% of Buckingham TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Speer Carbon Co LLC (Δ 8 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Bear Garden Generating Station stamps LIGHT volume · AIR pathway · TRACE-CARC · lead Ammonia. 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