Pickens County, AL
The federal environmental record for Pickens County (population 18,688): 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
5
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Pickens 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)
5 facilities in Pickens filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 17k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALABAMA PELLETS LLC | ALICEVILLE | Formaldehyde, Methanol | 16k lb |
| FCI ALICEVILLE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS | ALICEVILLE | Lead | 610 lb |
| LEWIS BROTHERS LUMBER CO | ALICEVILLE | Lead | 115 lb |
| PECO FOODS INC - GORDO FEED MILL | GORDO | - | 0 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | ALICEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 116 tank facilities in Pickens: 55 tanks in service and 217 closed. 22 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Pickens 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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