Walker County, AL
The federal environmental record for Walker County (population 64,728): 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
8
TRI facilities
20
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Walker 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)
8 facilities in Walker filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 12k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAR-JAC POULTRY AL LLC | JASPER | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 7k lb |
| NELSON BROTHERS LLC PARRISH | PARRISH | Ammonia, Maleic anhydride | 3k lb |
| NELSON BROTHERS LLC - SAMOSET FACILITY | CORDOVA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 745 lb |
| DYNO NOBEL INC | PARRISH | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 512 lb |
| JASPER LUMBER LLC | JASPER | Lead | 208 lb |
| HAYASHI TELEMPU NA | JASPER | Diisocyanates | 200 lb |
| HIXSON LUMBER CO LLC | NAUVOO | - | 0 lb |
| SUN COAST RESOURCES LLC | JASPER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 270 tank facilities in Walker: 171 tanks in service and 547 closed. 60 fuel releases are on record, of which 20 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Walker 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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