Escambia County, AL
The federal environmental record for Escambia County (population 36,558): 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
10
TRI facilities
7
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Escambia 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)
10 facilities in Escambia filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGIA-PACIFIC BREWTON LLC | BREWTON | Methanol, Hydrogen sulfide | 2.2M lb |
| BIG ESCAMBIA CREEK GAS PLANT | ATMORE | Hydrogen sulfide | 59k lb |
| T R MILLER MILL CO INC | BREWTON | Methanol, Lead And Lead Compounds | 32k lb |
| GREDE II - BREWTON | BREWTON | Manganese, Nickel | 2k lb |
| FRIT CAR INC. | BREWTON | Toluene | 1k lb |
| SWIFT LUMBER INC. | ATMORE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1k lb |
| TIGER SUL PRODUCTS LLC | ATMORE | Hydrogen sulfide | 477 lb |
| HUXFORD POLE & TIMBER CO. INC. | HUXFORD | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 1 lb |
| ALABAMA CHIPS INC | BREWTON | - | 0 lb |
| NATURAL DECORATIONS INC | BREWTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 190 tank facilities in Escambia: 109 tanks in service and 410 closed. 55 fuel releases are on record, of which 7 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Escambia 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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