Shelby County, AL
The federal environmental record for Shelby County (population 233,000): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
6
PFAS-detecting water systems
16
TRI facilities
19
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Plating Company, Inc. | Vincent | on the NPL | 09/18/2012 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Shelby 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ALABASTER WATER BOARD AL0001148 | PFBS: 85 ng/L PFPeA: 33 ng/L PFOA: 21 ng/L | above final limit |
| HELENA UTILITY BOARD AL0001157 | PFBS: 13 ng/L PFOS: 7 ng/L PFPeA: 7 ng/L | above final limit |
| MONTEVALLO WATER WORKS & SEWER AL0001160 | PFOS: 16.7 ng/L PFHxS: 5.9 ng/L PFPeA: 5 ng/L | above final limit |
| PELHAM WATER WORKS AL0001163 | PFBS: 64.3 ng/L PFPeA: 32.2 ng/L PFHxA: 18.5 ng/L | above final limit |
| STERRETT-VANDIVER WATER SYSTEM AL0001164 | PFBS: 110 ng/L PFPeA: 33 ng/L PFOS: 31 ng/L | above final limit |
| SHELBY COUNTY WATER SYSTEM AL0001671 | PFBS: 113.5 ng/L PFPeA: 47.6 ng/L PFHxA: 28.3 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
16 facilities in Shelby filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 610k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLIDEWELL SPECIALTIES FOUNDRY CO INC. | CALERA | Manganese, Copper | 180k lb |
| LHOIST NA OF ALABAMA LLC-O'NEAL PLANT | CALERA | Ammonia, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 158k lb |
| LHOIST NA OF ALABAMA LLC-MONTEVALLO PLANT | CALERA | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Vanadium compounds | 121k lb |
| E. C. GASTON ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT | WILSONVILLE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 116k lb |
| ARGOS CEMENT LLC - ROBERTA PLANT | CALERA | Ammonia, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 14k lb |
| RESEARCH SOLUTIONS GROUP INC | PELHAM | Methanol, n-Hexane | 13k lb |
| STELLA-JONES CORP | MONTEVALLO | Creosote, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 3k lb |
| AVANTI POLAR LIPIDS INC | ALABASTER | Chloroform, Methanol | 3k lb |
| CARMEUSE LIME & STONE INC. | SAGINAW | Lead compounds, Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 852 lb |
| MISSISSIPPI LIME CO - CALERA PLANT | CALERA | Lead compounds, Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 36 lb |
| VULCAN THREADED PRODUCTS INC | PELHAM | Chromium, Manganese | 5 lb |
| READY MIX USA LLC - ALABASTER PLANT | ALABASTER | - | 0 lb |
| MCWANE PLANT & INDUSTRIAL LLC | CALERA | Nickel | 0 lb |
| FORTERRA PIPE & PRECAST - PELHAM PRESTRESS | PELHAM | Lead | 0 lb |
| MAGNUM PRODUCTS | ALABASTER | - | 0 lb |
| GEORGIA MASONRY SUPPLY PELHAM | PELHAM | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 353 tank facilities in Shelby: 368 tanks in service and 603 closed. 134 fuel releases are on record, of which 19 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Shelby 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Shelby, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALABAMA PLATING- SATELLITEVINCENT
- HELENA MIDDLE SCHOOL MERCURY RELEASEHELENA