Carroll County, GA
The federal environmental record for Carroll County (population 127,098): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
21
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Carroll 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 Carroll filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 370k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHWIRE CO | CARROLLTON | Copper compounds, Antimony compounds | 143k lb |
| DECOSTAR INDUSTRIES INC | CARROLLTON | Xylene (mixed isomers), 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 122k lb |
| SOUTHWIRE CO VILLA RICA PLANT | VILLA RICA | Antimony compounds, Zinc compounds | 55k lb |
| PRINTPACK INC. | VILLA RICA | Ozone | 26k lb |
| SOUTHWIRE CO NORTH CAMPUS | CARROLLTON | Antimony And Antimony Compounds, Copper | 23k lb |
| PILGRIM'S PRIDE CARROLLTON PROCESSING PLANT | CARROLLTON | Peracetic acid | 1k lb |
| STRUKTOL CO OF AMERICA LLC | VILLA RICA | Maleic anhydride, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 368 lb |
| QUAKER HOUGHTON PA ,INC | CARROLLTON | - | 0 lb |
| ROYAL METAL PRODUCTS INC. | TEMPLE | - | 0 lb |
| CERRO WIRE LLC | CARROLLTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 323 tank facilities in Carroll: 411 tanks in service and 665 closed. 200 fuel releases are on record, of which 21 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Carroll as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 4 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 Carroll, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CARLISLE TIRE & WHEEL FIREBOWDON
- GA POWER CO WANSLEY STM ELEC GEN STAROOPVILLE
- SOUTHWIRE CO COPPER DIVISIONCARROLLTON
- TEMPLE ABANDONED DRUMTEMPLE
- WEST GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL PLATING SITECARROLLTON