Clarke County, AL
The federal environmental record for Clarke County (population 22,337): 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
3
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Clarke with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| GROVE HILL WATER WORKS AL0000255 | PFOS: 19 ng/L PFHxS: 14 ng/L PFPeA: 6.4 ng/L | above final limit |
| JACKSON WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD AL0000256 | PFOS: 6.2 ng/L | above final limit |
| THOMASVILLE WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD AL0000262 | PFBS: 41 ng/L PFPeA: 15 ng/L PFOS: 14 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
5 facilities in Clarke filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.4M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOISE WHITE PAPER LLC | JACKSON | Methanol, Ammonia | 1.2M lb |
| LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORP. CLARKE COUNTY OSB | THOMASVILLE | Methanol, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 81k lb |
| WESTERVELT LUMBER THOMASVILLE LLC | THOMASVILLE | Methanol | 45k lb |
| SCOTCH PLYWOOD CO INC. | FULTON | Methanol, Lead | 37k lb |
| CANFOR SOUTHERN PINE - FULTON AL | FULTON | Methanol, Lead | 33k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 163 tank facilities in Clarke: 77 tanks in service and 348 closed. 37 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Clarke as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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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