Suwannee County, FL
The federal environmental record for Suwannee County (population 46,130): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
34
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Wood Preserving | Live Oak | deleted | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Suwannee 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)
4 facilities in Suwannee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 487k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILGRIM'S PRIDE LIVE OAK PROCESSING PLANT | LIVE OAK | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 447k lb |
| SUWANNEE AMERICAN CEMENT | BRANFORD | Ammonia, Mercury compounds | 41k lb |
| PILGRIM'S PRIDE LIVE OAK FEED MILL | LIVE OAK | - | 0 lb |
| BINDERHOLZ LIVE OAK LLC | LIVE OAK | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 198 tank facilities in Suwannee: 115 tanks in service and 465 closed. 88 fuel releases are on record, of which 34 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Suwannee 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 Suwannee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BROWN WOOD PRESERVINGLIVE OAK