Jefferson County, AR
The federal environmental record for Jefferson County (population 63,661): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
13
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Jefferson 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)
13 facilities in Jefferson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUZANO PACKAGING | PINE BLUFF | Methanol, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 3.1M lb |
| AMERICAN KRAFT PAPER INDUSTRIES LLC | WHITE HALL | Methanol, Hydrogen sulfide | 1.1M lb |
| PLANTER COTTON OIL MILL | PINE BLUFF | n-Hexane | 405k lb |
| WHITE BLUFF GENERATING PLANT | REDFIELD | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 68k lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC PINE BLUFF JEFFERSON PARKWAY PLANT | PINE BLUFF | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 14k lb |
| KISWIRE PINE BLUFF INC | PINE BLUFF | Xylene (mixed isomers), Lead | 4k lb |
| FLINT GROUP PACKAGING INKS N.A. CORP | WHITE HALL | Zinc compounds, Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 275 lb |
| U.S. ARMY PINE BLUFF ARSENAL | PINE BLUFF | Phosphorus (yellow or white) | 10 lb |
| WHEELING MACHINE PINE BLUFF | PINE BLUFF | Lead | 1 lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC. - PINE BLUFF FEED MILL | PINE BLUFF | - | 0 lb |
| HOOVER TREATED WOOD PRODUCTS INC | PINE BLUFF | - | 0 lb |
| NATIONAL CTR FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH | JEFFERSON | Mixture | 0 lb |
| DOMAN LUMBER | PINE BLUFF | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 334 tank facilities in Jefferson: 193 tanks in service and 707 closed. 50 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Jefferson 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 Jefferson, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CASTINAS USAPINE BLUFF
- KENNAMETAL, INC.PINE BLUFF
- NATIONAL CTR FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCHJEFFERSON
- US ARMY PINE BLUFF ARSENALPINE BLUFF
- US EPA INCINERATION RESEARCH FACJEFFERSON