Putnam County, GA
The federal environmental record for Putnam County (population 23,129): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
10
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Putnam 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)
2 facilities in Putnam filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 35k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERFOR U.S. INC. - EATONTON DIV | EATONTON | Methanol, Lead | 35k lb |
| GRO TEC INC | EATONTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 94 tank facilities in Putnam: 103 tanks in service and 184 closed. 63 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Putnam 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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