Gwinnett County, GA
The federal environmental record for Gwinnett County (population 983,526): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
15
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
38
TRI facilities
36
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Gwinnett 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)
38 facilities in Gwinnett filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 568k lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PURAFIL | DORAVILLE | Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 483k lb |
| MTI BATHS | SUGAR HILL | Styrene | 37k lb |
| PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS INC DACULA FACILITY | DACULA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 17k lb |
| UNIVAR SOLUTIONS USA | NORCROSS | Formic acid, Sodium nitrite | 11k lb |
| AGCO INC | NORCROSS | Styrene | 8k lb |
| OFS FITEL LLC. | NORCROSS | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 4k lb |
| SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO | LAWRENCEVILLE | Ethylene glycol | 2k lb |
| DEXERIALS AMERICA CORP | SUWANEE | Certain glycol ethers | 2k lb |
| PROFORM FINISHING PRODUCTS - ATLANTA | DULUTH | Zinc compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 747 lb |
| HERAEUS QUARTZ N.A. LLC (HQNA) F/K/A HERAEUS TENEVO | BUFORD | Hydrogen fluoride | 701 lb |
| THE HANSON GROUP | NORCROSS | Diisocyanates | 417 lb |
| HUSSMANN CORP | SUWANEE | Copper, Manganese | 371 lb |
| RICOH ELECTRONICS INC | LAWRENCEVILLE | Zinc compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 363 lb |
| SUNIVA INC | NORCROSS | Hydrogen fluoride | 340 lb |
| ANITOX CORP | LAWRENCEVILLE | Formaldehyde | 54 lb |
| RYERSON INC. | NORCROSS | Nickel, Manganese | 23 lb |
| MICROMERITICS INSTRUMENT CORP | NORCROSS | Mercury | 13 lb |
| WIKA INSTRUMENT LP | LAWRENCEVILLE | Nickel, Chromium | 11 lb |
| GOODWIN CO. | LAWRENCEVILLE | Certain glycol ethers | 10 lb |
| SAFETY-KLEEN SYSTEMS NORCROSS (NGA) | NORCROSS | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Ethylene glycol | 8 lb |
| THOMAS CONCRETE - GRAYSON | LOGANVILLE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
| DYKES PAVING & CONSTRUCTION | NORCROSS | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lb |
| HEATCRAFT REFRIGERATION PRODUCTS LLC | STONE MOUNTAIN | - | 0 lb |
| CMC REBAR | LAWRENCEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| HOLCIM SOLUTIONS & PRODUCTS US LLC | NORCROSS | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 947 tank facilities in Gwinnett: 1,251 tanks in service and 1,715 closed. 788 fuel releases are on record, of which 36 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Gwinnett as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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 Gwinnett, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALPINE SITELILBURN
- BRICKTON STATION MERCURYBUFORD
- CARPET VISIONS RELEASELILBURN
- COLONY CENTER DRUM SITENORCROSS
- COUNTY LINE RECYCLING METHANELAWRENCEVILLE
- CSX DACULA TRAIN DERAILMENTDACULA
- CSX LILBURN DERAILMENTLILBURN
- GAO 011 - ANITOX DRIVEBUFORD
- LAKES PARKWAY LITHIUM BATTERIES FIRELAWRENCEVILLE
- LILBURN MERCURY SPILLLILBURN
- MCCLUSKEY'S FARMDACULA
- MCCOY, J. L.LAWRENCEVILLE
- NORTHEAST PARKWAY DRUMPEACHTREE CORNERS
- SAFETY-KLEEN INC - NORCROSS FACILITYNORCROSS
- STONE MOUNTAIN DERAILMENTNORCROSS