Union County, AR
The federal environmental record for Union County (population 37,397): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
2
Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
14
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| MacMillan Ring Free Oil | Norphlet | on the NPL | 05/12/2014 |
| Popile, Inc. | El Dorado | on the NPL | 10/14/1992 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Union 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)
14 facilities in Union filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 7.4M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEAN HARBORS EL DORADO LLC | EL DORADO | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Aluminum oxide (fibrous forms) | 4.4M lb |
| LANXESS - CENTRAL | EL DORADO | Dichloromethane, Ammonia | 1.0M lb |
| LSB CHEMICAL L.L.C | EL DORADO | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 786k lb |
| LION OIL CO | EL DORADO | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen cyanide | 548k lb |
| LANXESS - SOUTH PLANT | EL DORADO | Ammonia, Styrene | 408k lb |
| LYCUS LTD | EL DORADO | Methanol, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 101k lb |
| ANTHONY FOREST PRODUCTS CO URBANA | EL DORADO | Methanol, Lead And Lead Compounds | 27k lb |
| ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS - EL DORADO MDF | EL DORADO | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 16k lb |
| CHEMOURS EL DORADO | EL DORADO | Hydrogen fluoride | 10k lb |
| ANTHONY FOREST PRODUCTS CO LLC - LAMINATING PLANT | EL DORADO | Formic acid | 695 lb |
| MARTIN OPERATING PTNR LP | SMACKOVER | Toluene, m-Xylene | 149 lb |
| SHAW EL DORADO LLC | EL DORADO | Chromium, Nickel | 89 lb |
| NEXANS AMERCABLE INC. | EL DORADO | Lead compounds, Zinc compounds | 21 lb |
| MILBANK MANUFACTURING CO | EL DORADO | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 333 tank facilities in Union: 137 tanks in service and 693 closed. 34 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Union 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 Union, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- COOPER-STANDARD AUTOMOTIVEEL DORADO
- ENSCO, INC.EL DORADO
- HOLLYWOOD CLEANERSEL DORADO
- POPILE, INC.EL DORADO