Phillips County, AR
The federal environmental record for Phillips County (population 14,961): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Chemical Corporation | West Helena | on the NPL | 09/18/2012 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Phillips 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)
5 facilities in Phillips filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 5k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORAC ADDITIVES LLC | HELENA | Zinc compounds | 5k lb |
| UNITED INITIATORS INC | HELENA | Benzoyl chloride | 407 lb |
| ENVIRO TECH CHEMICAL SERVICES-PLANT 6 | HELENA | Peracetic acid, Nitric acid | 12 lb |
| HELM FERTILIZER TERMINAL INC. | HELENA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 5 lb |
| HELENA INDUSTRIES LLC | WEST HELENA | Triphenyltin hydroxide | 2 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 164 tank facilities in Phillips: 46 tanks in service and 337 closed. 12 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Phillips 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 Phillips, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CEDAR CHEMICALHELENA