EPA TRI Facility · Wood Products
Vaagen Brothers Lumber
Colville, WA
- Total releases
- 863 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Vaagen Brothers Lumber: how the 863 lbs splits
863 lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 851 lbs 98.7%
- Air Releases 10 lbs 1.1%
- Water Discharges 2 lbs 0.2%
Vaagen Brothers Lumber's 863 lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 98.7% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 1.1%. Leading chemical by pounds: Lead And Lead Compounds.
TRACE volume LAND pathway CLEAN
Vaagen Brothers Lumber is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Colville, WA, in the wood products sector. It reported 5 lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2023, and 863 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 14,063 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Washington's 311 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Vaagen Brothers Lumber is pounds #209 and chemical-count #193 at 863 lbs. Lamb Weston Inc Richland Facility leads reported pounds (13.1M lbs) at 3 chemicals (chemical-count #106). Hf Sinclair Puget Sound Refining LLC leads chemical count at 46 chemicals (711.7K lbs, pounds #26). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Hewes Marine Co Inc.; Boise Cascade Wood Products LLC Kettle Falls Lumber; Boise Cascade Wood Products LLC Kettle Falls Plywood; US Cbp Frontier Port of Entry #WA0049. Similar-scale Wood Products peers outside Washington: Fontana Wood Treating; Russellville; Plummer Forest Products Particleboard Plant; Ufp New Waverly. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Lead And Lead Compounds; Lead compounds.
Vaagen Brothers Lumber stamps TRACE volume with a dominant LAND pathway (98.7% land disposal) across 2 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 863 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Fontana Wood Treating and Russellville.
Vaagen Brothers Lumber vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
863 lbs 46th percentile higher than 46% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Vaagen Brothers Lumber in the Wood Products sector extract
Among the 823 Wood Products facilities in this database, Vaagen Brothers Lumber reports the 333rd-largest volume (863 lbs). Scale peers outside Washington include Fontana Wood Treating and Russellville.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Vaagen Brothers Lumber Form-R facts
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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 Vaagen Brothers Lumber releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 863 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 99% (445 lbs to 5 lbs).
Vaagen Brothers Lumber: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · LAND pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Vaagen Brothers Lumber year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 99% from 2019 to 2023). 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: Lead And Lead Compounds.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 445 lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 398 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 8 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 7 lbs | 1 |
| 2023 | 5 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Lead And Lead Compounds | 858 lbs | - |
| Lead compounds | 5 lbs | - |
Vaagen Brothers Lumber · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Vaagen Brothers Lumber
Closest other reporters in Washington - including Hewes Marine Co Inc., Boise Cascade Wood Products LLC Kettle Falls Lumber, Boise Cascade Wood Products LLC Kettle Falls Plywood, ordered by distance.
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Similar Wood Products Facilities
Other Wood Products facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Washington - e.g. Fontana Wood Treating, Russellville, Plummer Forest Products Particleboard Plant.
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 Lead And Lead Compounds, Lead compounds; nearby reporters include Hewes Marine Co Inc.. Vaagen Brothers Lumber stamps TRACE volume · LAND pathway · CLEAN 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 Vaagen Brothers Lumber TRI extract (TRACE · LAND · CLEAN · lead Lead And Lead Compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Vaagen Brothers Lumber totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Colville, WA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 321912 · Wood Products. 0.8% of Stevens TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: US Steel Fairless Hills Works (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Vaagen Brothers Lumber stamps TRACE volume · LAND pathway · CLEAN · lead Lead And Lead Compounds. 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