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Laurens County, GA

The federal environmental record for Laurens County (population 49,941): 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

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

7

TRI facilities

3

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Laurens 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)

7 facilities in Laurens filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.3M lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
WESTROCK SOUTHEAST LLCDUBLINZinc compounds, Manganese compounds1.1M lb
GREEN POWER SOLUTIONS OF GEORGIADUBLINZinc compounds, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)1.1M lb
YKK AP AMERICA INCDUBLINn-Butyl alcohol, Certain glycol ethers69k lb
WEST FRASER - DUDLEY LUMBER MILLDUDLEYMethanol50k lb
DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.EAST DUBLINNitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)17k lb
RENTZ CABINET CORPRENTZToluene10k lb
STEELFAB OF DUBLIN GEORGIA INCDUBLINManganese, Copper77 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 185 tank facilities in Laurens: 235 tanks in service and 333 closed. 120 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Laurens 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Laurens, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • FORSTMANN & COMPANY, INCDUBLIN