Baxter County, AR
The federal environmental record for Baxter County (population 42,875): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Baxter 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LAKEVIEW-MIDWAY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY AR0000027 | PFBA: 5.6 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
5 facilities in Baxter filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 70k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASS CAT BOATS & YAR-CRAFT BOATS | MOUNTAIN HOME | Styrene | 47k lb |
| DANFOSS-MOUNTAIN HOME | MOUNTAIN HOME | Zinc compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 13k lb |
| BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP | MOUNTAIN HOME | Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, Zinc compounds | 7k lb |
| AMERICAN STITCHCO INC DBA AMERICAN EPOXY SCIENTIFIC | MOUNTAIN HOME | Phthalic anhydride | 2k lb |
| EZ LOADER CUSTOM BOAT TRAILERS INC. | MIDWAY | Manganese | 46 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 140 tank facilities in Baxter: 90 tanks in service and 274 closed. 20 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Baxter 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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