Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Cowlitz County, Washington in 2026

• 17Handlers inspected
• 21Inspections on record
• 9Handlers inspected in 2025
• 3rdAmong Washington counties that year

Cowlitz County, Washington has 17 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2026, across 21 separate inspections. That compares with 9 in 2025. It is the 3rd largest of the 13 Washington counties with three or more handlers inspected that year. Each row below carries the date the inspection was recorded, the agency that recorded it and the kind of inspection it was.

Other years

• 2017 8
• 2018 7
• 2019 10
• 2021 6
• 2022 8
• 2023 10
• 2024 9
• 2025 9
• 2026 17

By what a handler generates, in 2026

• Small quantity generators inspected in Cowlitz County, Washington 7
• Large quantity generators inspected in Cowlitz County, Washington 5
• Very small quantity generators inspected in Cowlitz County, Washington 5

Comparable counties in Washington, 2026

• Benton County 5
• Clallam County 3
• Clark County 11
• King County 38
• Kitsap County 3
• Pierce County 28
• Skagit County 7
• Snohomish County 11
• Spokane County 11
• Thurston County 3
• Whatcom County 8
• Yakima County 5

Inspections recorded in 2026

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.