Stephens County, GA
The federal environmental record for Stephens County (population 27,228): 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
4
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Stephens 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)
4 facilities in Stephens filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 112k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIELDALE FARMS TOCCOA PROTIEN CONVERSON FACILITY | EASTANOLLEE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen sulfide | 92k lb |
| SARK WIRE | EASTANOLLEE | Copper | 20k lb |
| PATTERSON PUMP CO | TOCCOA | Copper | 28 lb |
| MORGAN CONCRETE CO. - TOCCOA | TOCCOA | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 114 tank facilities in Stephens: 107 tanks in service and 233 closed. 65 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Stephens 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.
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