Decatur County, GA
The federal environmental record for Decatur County (population 29,087): 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
5
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Decatur 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)
5 facilities in Decatur filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASF CORP ATTAPULGUS OPS | ATTAPULGUS | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 4.9M lb |
| SOUTHEASTERN MINERALS INC | BAINBRIDGE | Zinc compounds, Copper And Copper Compounds | 750 lb |
| TEXPAR BAINBRIDGE TERMINAL | BAINBRIDGE | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 3 lb |
| SHAW INDUSTRIES GROUP INC PLANT 70 | BAINBRIDGE | - | 0 lb |
| ERGON ASPHALT PARTNERS LP - BAINBRIDGE | BAINBRIDGE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 171 tank facilities in Decatur: 143 tanks in service and 352 closed. 120 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Decatur 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 Decatur, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AGRIUM BAINBRIDGE TERMINALBAINBRIDGE
- DECATUR COUNTY INDUSTRIAL PARK LANDFILLBAINBRIDGE
- ENGELHARD CORPORATION - ATTAPULGUS OPERATIONSATTAPULGUS
- LIQUID TRANSFER TERMINALSBAINBRIDGE
- RICHARD ROAD ABANDONED DRUMSDECATUR