Floyd County, GA
The federal environmental record for Floyd County (population 100,113): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
10
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
9
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Floyd 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FLOYD COUNTY GA1150001 | PFBS: 93.3 ng/L PFPeA: 23.4 ng/L PFHxA: 15.2 ng/L | above final limit |
| ROME GA1150002 | PFBS: 52.8 ng/L PFPeA: 18.8 ng/L PFOA: 17.3 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
15 facilities in Floyd filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL PAPER ROME LINERBOARD MILL | ROME | Methanol, Hydrogen sulfide | 2.4M lb |
| BALL CONTAINER LLC - ROME CAN PLANT | ROME | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 191k lb |
| GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS LLC ROME LUMBER OPERATIONS | ROME | Methanol | 37k lb |
| PROFILE CUSTOM EXTRUSIONS LLC | ROME | Xylene (mixed isomers) | 22k lb |
| BEKAERT CORP | ROME | Lead And Lead Compounds, Copper And Copper Compounds | 10k lb |
| POLYVENTIVE - ROME | ROME | Chloroacetic acid, Styrene | 5k lb |
| A & L SHIELDING INC. | ROME | Lead | 3k lb |
| F & P GEORGIA | ROME | Manganese | 1k lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC PLANT #40 | ROME | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 285 lb |
| S.I. STOREY LUMBER CO INC. | ARMUCHEE | Lead | 150 lb |
| ADVANCED STEEL TECHNOLOGY | ROME | Manganese | 22 lb |
| PACKAGING PRODUCTS CORP LLC | ROME | - | 0 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | CEDARTOWN | - | 0 lb |
| PIRELLI TIRE N.A. | ROME | - | 0 lb |
| BALL PACKAGING LLC | ROME | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 344 tank facilities in Floyd: 329 tanks in service and 677 closed. 223 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Floyd 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 Floyd, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- C & H TRANSPORTATION/GARDEN LAKE REALTYROME
- FROST DRIVE MERCURY SPILLROME`
- GA POWER CO HAMMOND STM ELEC GEN STACOOSA
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CO/GE ROMEROME
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER - ROME MILLROME
- ROCKMART WASTE OILROCKMART
- ROME COAL TAR PITROME
- ROME HYDROCHLORIC ACID SPILLROME
- SYCAMORE STREET TANKER ROLLOVERROME
- VIRGINIA CAROLINA CHEMICAL (VCC) ROMEROME