Independence County, AR
The federal environmental record for Independence County (population 38,320): 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
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Independence 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 Independence filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.0M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INDEPENDENCE STEAM ELECTRIC STATION | NEWARK | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 645k lb |
| FUTUREFUEL CHEMICAL CO | BATESVILLE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 282k lb |
| OZARK MOUNTAIN POULTRY BATESVILLE PROCESSING | BATESVILLE | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 92k lb |
| PECO FOODS INC - BATESVILLE PROCESSING | BATESVILLE | Peracetic acid | 3k lb |
| CUSTOM CRAFT POULTRY LLC | BATESVILLE | Peracetic acid | 547 lb |
| ARKANSAS LIME CO | BATESVILLE | Vanadium compounds, Lead compounds | 322 lb |
| OMP FARMS LLC | MAGNESS | - | 0 lb |
| PECO FOODS INC - NEWARK FEED MILL | NEWARK | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 156 tank facilities in Independence: 92 tanks in service and 325 closed. 18 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Independence 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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