Pope County, AR
The federal environmental record for Pope County (population 64,593): 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
10
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Pope 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 Pope filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 67k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONAGRA FOODS PACKAGED FOODS LLC- RUSSELLVILLE | RUSSELLVILLE | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 36k lb |
| PREMIUM PROTEIN PRODUCTS LLC | RUSSELLVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 10k lb |
| STELLA-JONES CORP | RUSSELLVILLE | Creosote, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 6k lb |
| FIRESTONE TUBE CO | RUSSELLVILLE | Zinc compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 6k lb |
| MAHLE ENGINE COMPONENTS USA INC | RUSSELLVILLE | Methanol | 6k lb |
| OLIN RUSSELLVILLE CELL TECHNOLOGIES LLC | RUSSELLVILLE | Styrene | 3k lb |
| TABER EXTRUSIONS LLC | RUSSELLVILLE | Copper compounds, Zinc compounds | 32 lb |
| JBT CAT | RUSSELLVILLE | Nickel, Chromium | 2 lb |
| JW ALUMINUM RUSSELLVILLE OPERATIONS | RUSSELLVILLE | Copper, Lead | 1 lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC. - POTTSVILLE FEED MILL | RUSSELLVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 209 tank facilities in Pope: 130 tanks in service and 437 closed. 23 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Pope 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.
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