Rankings · Hazardous waste violations

Hazardous waste violations in California

• 4,993Handlers ranked
• 23,224Total violations

The ten largest of the 4,993 handlers in California that report this figure — the hazardous waste handlers with the most violations on record in the federal handler register. A handler that does not report the figure is not ranked here, so the count above is the population this ordering covers, not every handler on file.

Top ten by hazardous waste violations

1. NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND (NASNI) HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY COMPLEX San Diego 201 violations
2. STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford 139 violations
3. PHIBRO-TECH INC Santa Fe Springs 134 violations
4. MCB CAMP PENDLETON; ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY Camp Pendleton 132 violations
5. VEOLIA ES TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS LLC Azusa 129 violations
6. SAFETY-KLEEN OF CALIFORNIA INC Newark 103 violations
7. RHO-CHEM LLC Inglewood 101 violations
8. US ECOLOGY VERNON INC Los Angeles 100 violations
9. METECH RECYCLING INC Gilroy 95 violations
10. CLEAN HARBORS SAN JOSE San Jose 88 violations

By county

• Los Angeles County, California 1,318
• San Diego County, California 598
• Orange County, California 481
• Santa Clara County, California 359
• Alameda County, California 280
• San Bernardino County, California 212
• Contra Costa County, California 211
• Ventura County, California 169
• San Mateo County, California 146
• Riverside County, California 122
• San Joaquin County, California 122
• Kern County, California 109
• Sacramento County, California 103
• Fresno County, California 84
• San Francisco County, California 73
• Imperial County, California 62
• Stanislaus County, California 52
• Santa Barbara County, California 48
• Solano County, California 42
• Butte County, California 32
• Monterey County, California 29
• Tulare County, California 27
• Sonoma County, California 25
• Placer County, California 22
• Sutter County, California 22
• Marin County, California 21
• Santa Cruz County, California 21
• Madera County, California 16
• Yolo County, California 16
• Napa County, California 15
• Merced County, California 14
• Humboldt County, California 12
• Mendocino County, California 12
• Kings County, California 11
• San Luis Obispo County, California 11

Hazardous waste violations across a wider area →

Figures as filed with the agency that collects them: EPA’s ECHO downloads and CMS provider files.