Burke County, NC
The federal environmental record for Burke County (population 88,338): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
12
TRI facilities
56
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Burke 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)
12 facilities in Burke filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 74k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEXION INC - MORGANTON FACILITY | MORGANTON | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 34k lb |
| SGL CARBON LLC | MORGANTON | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 15k lb |
| MOLDED FIBER GLASS NORTH CAROLINA | MORGANTON | Styrene | 11k lb |
| AMERICAN ROLLER BEARING CO | MORGANTON | Methanol, Copper | 5k lb |
| AMERICAN ROLLER BEARING | MORGANTON | Methanol | 3k lb |
| SAFT AMERICA INC | VALDESE | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Acetonitrile | 3k lb |
| LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO INC | MORGANTON | Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 1k lb |
| ENVIRONMENTAL INKS - A MEMBER OF THE SIEGWERK GROUP | MORGANTON | Ammonia | 335 lb |
| MERITOR HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC | MORGANTON | Manganese | 95 lb |
| SOUTHERN CONCRETE MATERIALS-MORGANTON (KERRS) | MORGANTON | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lb |
| BRACKETT BROTHERS | MORGANTON | - | 0 lb |
| VEKA EAST | MORGANTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 350 tank facilities in Burke: 281 tanks in service and 819 closed. 275 fuel releases are on record, of which 56 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Burke 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Burke, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CAPRI INDUSTRIESMORGANTON
- STS DRUMSMORGANTON
- SYNTHRON INCMORGANTON
- VALDESE WATER RECYCLINGVALDESE