Bertie County, NC
The federal environmental record for Bertie County (population 16,922): 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
3
TRI facilities
41
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bertie 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)
3 facilities in Bertie filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.1M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERDUE FOODS LLC - LEWISTON PROCESSING PLANT | LEWISTON WOODVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen sulfide | 1.9M lb |
| AVOCA LLC | MERRY HILL | Methanol, n-Hexane | 114k lb |
| DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. | LEWISTON WOODVILLE | Ammonia | 1k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 177 tank facilities in Bertie: 78 tanks in service and 415 closed. 139 fuel releases are on record, of which 41 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bertie 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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