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Libby Asbestos Site

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: Asbestos.

512 California Avenue, Libby, Montana · ZIP 59923 · EPA ID MT0009083840

CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
AsbestosHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Causes mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. (IARC, EPA)Soil7
AsbestosHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Causes mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. (IARC, EPA)Buildings/Structures5
Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 8 systems below draw on groundwater (or mixed sources) and serve communities whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Distance is to the served-city centroid — SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations, so this is a proximity screen, not a wellhead-impact assessment.

Water systemServesDistancePopulation servedSourceStatus
Pinewood Village PrivateLibby0.4 mi160GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Johnsons Mobile Home Park PrivateLibby0.4 mi35GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Emkayan Village Co Water And Sewer Dist PrivateLibby0.4 mi160GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Rivers Edge Mobile Park Libby PrivateLibby0.4 mi60GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Posts Trailer Court PrivateLibby0.4 mi45GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
High Country Park PrivateLibby0.4 mi76GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Montana Christian College PrivateLibby0.4 mi105GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Libby Creek Mobile Park Llc-Unapproved PrivateLibby0.4 mi35GROUNDWATERIn compliance

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Within 1 mile of this site (3 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 2,596. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
52.8%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
12.7%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
4.4%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
26.5%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 1-mile buffer around this site (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.