Effingham County, GA
The federal environmental record for Effingham County (population 71,541): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Effingham with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| EFFINGHAM COUNTY SURFACE WATER SYSTEM GA1030131 | PFOS: 6.4 ng/L PFOA: 5.7 ng/L PFBS: 4.9 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
5 facilities in Effingham filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 307k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGIA-PACIFIC SAVANNAH RIVER LLC | RINCON | Vanadium compounds, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 219k lb |
| MCINTOSH ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT | RINCON | Ammonia | 88k lb |
| CP&P RINCON PIPE | RINCON | Lead | 117 lb |
| OLDCASTLE SAVANNAH | GUYTON | Lead compounds, Mercury compounds | 3 lb |
| FAULKVILLE CHIPMILL | BLOOMINGDALE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 87 tank facilities in Effingham: 135 tanks in service and 126 closed. 39 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Effingham 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 Effingham, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- RINCON GA CHEMICAL SMELL COMPLAINTRINCON