Baker County, FL
The federal environmental record for Baker County (population 28,368): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
27
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Baker 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)
2 facilities in Baker filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 41k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSTEEL WIRE PRODUCTS | SANDERSON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Zinc compounds | 41k lb |
| BAKER PAINT MANUFACTURING | SANDERSON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 90 tank facilities in Baker: 43 tanks in service and 256 closed. 79 fuel releases are on record, of which 27 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Baker 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 Baker, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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