Craven County, NC
The federal environmental record for Craven County (population 102,391): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
8
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
114
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station | Havelock | on the NPL | 12/16/1994 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Craven 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 Craven filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 965k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL PAPER- NEW BERN MILL | VANCEBORO | Methanol, Hydrogen sulfide | 828k lb |
| WHITE RIVER MARINE GROUP | NEW BERN | Styrene | 123k lb |
| U.S. MARINE CORPS CHERRY POINT AIR STATION | CHERRY POINT | Lead, Toluene | 13k lb |
| CULPEPER OF COVE CITY LLC | COVE CITY | Arsenic compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 1k lb |
| S&W NEW BERN PLANT | NEW BERN | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 297 tank facilities in Craven: 228 tanks in service and 842 closed. 293 fuel releases are on record, of which 114 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Craven 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 Craven, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONVANCEBORO
- CHERRY POINT MARINE CORPS AIR STATIONHAVELOCK
- ENCEE CHEMICAL SALES INCBRIDGETON
- GLOBAL CELLULOSE FIBERS - NEW BERN MILL-TREATMENT_PLT_DRINKING WTPVANCEBORO
- GRAPE CREEK PESTICIDE SPILLCOVE CITY
- NEW BERN COAL GAS PLANTNEW BERN
- NEW BERN MERCURY SPILLNEW BERN
- USMC SLOCUM CRK MARINE CORPS AIR STACHERRY POINT