Washington County, AR
The federal environmental record for Washington County (population 261,549): 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
21
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Washington 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)
21 facilities in Washington filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 285k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAWNEER CO. INC. | SPRINGDALE | Certain glycol ethers, Toluene | 148k lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC. - BERRY STREET PLANT | SPRINGDALE | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 32k lb |
| MOISTURESHIELD INC. | SPRINGDALE | Zinc compounds, Maleic anhydride | 28k lb |
| CONAGRA FOODS PACKAGED FOODS LLC | FAYETTEVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 26k lb |
| GEORGE'S PROCESSING INC | SPRINGDALE | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 23k lb |
| CARGILL PROCESSING PLANT SPRINGDALE AR | SPRINGDALE | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 14k lb |
| AZZ GALVANIZING SERVICES-ARKANSAS | PRAIRIE GROVE | Zinc compounds, Lead | 14k lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC-RANDALL ROAD CORNISH PLANT/LONG HAUL TRUCK | SPRINGDALE | Peracetic acid | 680 lb |
| GEORGE'S FEED MILL | SPRINGDALE | Peracetic acid, Zinc compounds | 578 lb |
| ELKHART PRODUCTS CORP | FAYETTEVILLE | Copper | 415 lb |
| STANDARD MATERIALS GROUP INC.- FAYETTEVILLE | FAYETTEVILLE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 21 lb |
| APAC-CENTRAL INC. FAYETTEVILLE READY MIX | FAYETTEVILLE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 10 lb |
| PRATT & WHITNEY PSD INC. | SPRINGDALE | Nickel, Chromium | 8 lb |
| BEST BLOCK - SPRINGDALE AR PLANT | SPRINGDALE | Lead | 0 lb |
| KEYTRONIC - FAYETTEVILLE | FAYETTEVILLE | Lead | 0 lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC JOHNSON ROAD FEED MILL | SPRINGDALE | - | 0 lb |
| MARSHALLTOWN CO | FAYETTEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| CHEMSTATION OF THE OZARKS | SPRINGDALE | - | 0 lb |
| CARGILL TURKEY PRODUCTION LLC | SPRINGDALE | - | 0 lb |
| DELTA GROUP ELECTRONICS INC | FAYETTEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| AMERICAN TUBING ARKANSAS LLC | SPRINGDALE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 459 tank facilities in Washington: 279 tanks in service and 1,012 closed. 74 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Washington 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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