Hempstead County, AR
The federal environmental record for Hempstead County (population 19,343): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hempstead 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)
10 facilities in Hempstead filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYSON CHICKEN INC. - HOPE PROCESSING PLANT | HOPE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 982k lb |
| AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER JOHN W. TURK JR PLANT | FULTON | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese compounds | 635k lb |
| HEXION INC. - HOPE PLANT | HOPE | Formaldehyde, Methanol | 32k lb |
| AMERITIES SOUTH LLC | HOPE | Creosote, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 6k lb |
| NEW MILLENNIUM BUILDING SYSTEMS LLC | HOPE | Manganese, Nickel | 216 lb |
| RALSTON HOLDINGS QOZB LLC DBA TOLBER CHEMICAL | HOPE | Toluene | 111 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | HOPE | - | 0 lb |
| SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS REGIONAL FEED MILL | FULTON | - | 0 lb |
| OLDCASTLE & GARDEN | HOPE | - | 0 lb |
| ANTHONY WOOD TREATING INC | HOPE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 130 tank facilities in Hempstead: 66 tanks in service and 273 closed. 11 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hempstead as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Hempstead, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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