Lowndes County, GA
The federal environmental record for Lowndes County (population 120,712): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
28
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Lowndes 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 |
|---|---|---|
| VALDOSTA GA1850002 | PFOS: 7 ng/L PFOA: 6.1 ng/L PFBS: 5.8 ng/L | above final limit |
| OAK STREET SUBDIVISION GA1850022 | PFOS: 12.1 ng/L PFHxS: 3.2 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
15 facilities in Lowndes filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.0M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA | CLYATTVILLE | Methanol, Hydrogen sulfide | 1.5M lb |
| VALDOSTA OILSEEDS COMPLEX | VALDOSTA | n-Hexane | 954k lb |
| MAAX US CORP | VALDOSTA | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 215k lb |
| JACUZZI LUXURY BATH | VALDOSTA | Styrene | 81k lb |
| SAFT AMERICA INC | VALDOSTA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 80k lb |
| AQUATIC BATH | VALDOSTA | Styrene | 37k lb |
| LANGDALE FOREST PRODUCTS CO. | VALDOSTA | Methanol | 29k lb |
| U.S. DOD USAF MOODY AFB SMALL ARMS & GRAND BAY RANGES | MOODY AFB | Copper, Lead | 28k lb |
| BETTER WAY PRODUCTS | VALDOSTA | Styrene | 6k lb |
| CHEMICAL RESEARCH\TECHNOLOGY (CR\T) | VALDOSTA | Phenol, Maleic anhydride | 3k lb |
| ERCO WORLDWIDE INC | VALDOSTA | Chlorine | 1k lb |
| VALDOSTA GEORGIA OPERATIONS | VALDOSTA | Methanol | 1k lb |
| CJB INDUSTRIES INC. GH PLANT | VALDOSTA | Copper And Copper Compounds, Simazine | 868 lb |
| CJB INDUSTRIES INC CS PLANT | VALDOSTA | Copper compounds, Zinc compounds | 146 lb |
| CJB INDUSTRIES INC CW PLANT | VALDOSTA | Certain glycol ethers, Propargite | 1 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 313 tank facilities in Lowndes: 344 tanks in service and 615 closed. 243 fuel releases are on record, of which 28 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lowndes 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 Lowndes, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ATLANTA GAS LIGHT-VALDOSTA MGP SITEVALDOSTA
- CARE ENVIRONMENTAL CORP.VALDOSTA
- MOODY AFBMOODY AFB
- RAMSEY CHEMICALSVALDOSTA
- SOUTHERN BAG COMPANYVALDOSTA
- SUNSET FARM FOODSVALDOSTA