Russell County, AL

The federal environmental record for Russell County (population 58,744): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

Public water systems serving Russell 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

PHENIX CITY UTILITIES

AL0001142

PFOA: 7.5 ng/L

PFPeA: 7 ng/L

PFOS: 6.8 ng/L

above final limit

RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY

AL0001145

PFBA: 6.9 ng/L

PFPeA: 6.8 ng/L

PFOA: 5.8 ng/L

above final limit

On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)

4 facilities in Russell filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.1M lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
WESTROCK COATED BOARD LLC	COTTONTON	Methanol, Ammonia	2.0M lb
GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC. - PLANT 65	PHENIX CITY	Hydrogen fluoride, Lead	95k lb
JOHNS MANVILLE	PHENIX CITY	Ammonia, Formaldehyde	24k lb
ARGOS PHENIX CITY CONCRETE PLANT	PHENIX CITY	Lead	0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 162 tank facilities in Russell: 143 tanks in service and 312 closed. 51 fuel releases are on record, of which 18 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Russell 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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