Columbus County, NC
The federal environmental record for Columbus County (population 50,121): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
10
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
39
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Chemical Corporation | Riegelwood | on the NPL | 03/10/2011 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Columbus 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)
5 facilities in Columbus filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL PAPER RIEGELWOOD MILL | RIEGELWOOD | Methanol, Ammonia | 1.7M lb |
| BAKELITE SYNTHETICS | RIEGELWOOD | Methanol, Ammonia | 121k lb |
| MAXPRO MANUFACTURING | WHITEVILLE | Toluene | 11k lb |
| ENTEGRIS INC. | RIEGELWOOD | n-Hexane, Methanol | 2k lb |
| CAMPBELL OIL & GAS CO. | WHITEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 244 tank facilities in Columbus: 170 tanks in service and 543 closed. 191 fuel releases are on record, of which 39 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Columbus 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 Columbus, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BUFKIN STORE LEAD SITETABOR CITY
- CAROLINA TIRE SALESCHADBOURN
- CHADBOURN BATTERYCHADBOURN
- GLOBAL CELLULOSE FIBERS - RIEGELWOOD MILLRIEGELWOOD
- GUYTON BATTERY SERVICECHADBOURN
- HOLTRACHEM MANUFACTURING CO LLCRIEGELWOOD
- OLD STAKE ROAD SITECHADBOURN
- RED MOUNTAIN TIMBERBOLTON
- VINEGAR HILL LEAD SITETABOR CITY
- WRIGHT CHEMICAL CORPORATIONRIEGELWOOD