Wayne County, GA
The federal environmental record for Wayne County (population 31,373): 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
4
TRI facilities
13
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Wayne 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 Wayne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.0M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYONIER PERFORMANCE FIBERS JESUP MILL | JESUP | Methanol, Hydrogen sulfide | 4.0M lb |
| CHEMOURS - JESUP MINE | JESUP | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 9k lb |
| GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD - JESUP INC. | JESUP | Copper And Copper Compounds, Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 1k lb |
| FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION JESUP | JESUP | Lead | 800 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 113 tank facilities in Wayne: 93 tanks in service and 235 closed. 79 fuel releases are on record, of which 13 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Wayne 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 Wayne, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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