Blount County, AL
The federal environmental record for Blount County (population 59,816): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
1
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Blount reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
1 facilities in Blount filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 951k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYSON FARMS INC. - BLOUNTSVILLE PROCESSING PLANT | BLOUNTSVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 951k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 123 tank facilities in Blount: 112 tanks in service and 249 closed. 28 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Blount as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 4 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
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