Henderson County, NC
The federal environmental record for Henderson County (population 119,230): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
11
TRI facilities
40
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Electric Co/Shepherd Farm | East Flat Rock | on the NPL | 12/16/1994 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Henderson 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)
11 facilities in Henderson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 102k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSONART LLC | FLETCHER | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 81k lb |
| UPM RAFLATAC INC | MILLS RIVER | Ammonia | 14k lb |
| BLUE RIDGE METALS CORP | FLETCHER | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 3k lb |
| LINAMAR LIGHT METALS-MR | MILLS RIVER | Aluminum (fume or dust), Copper | 2k lb |
| MERITOR HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC | FLETCHER | Manganese | 1k lb |
| MMA MANUFACTURING | EAST FLAT ROCK | Manganese | 7 lb |
| CAROLINA READY MIX & BUILDERS SUPPLY LLC | FLETCHER | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 3 lb |
| SOUTHERN CONCRETE MATERIALS-FLETCHER PLANT | FLETCHER | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lb |
| HAYNES WIRE CO | HENDERSONVILLE | Chromium | 1 lb |
| SOUTHERN CONCRETE MATERIALS-HENDERSONVILLE PLANT | HENDERSONVILLE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
| SOUTHERN CONCRETE MATERIALS-PRECAST DIV | FLETCHER | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 256 tank facilities in Henderson: 233 tanks in service and 692 closed. 222 fuel releases are on record, of which 40 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Henderson as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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 Henderson, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CO/SHEPHERD FARMEAST FLAT ROCK
- HENDERSONVILLE ACID SPILLHENDERSONVILLE
- MUDDY CREEK PESTICIDE RELEASEHENDERSONVILLE
- PINEBROOK CIRCLE MERCURY SPILLHENDERSONVILLE
- PISGAH MOUNTAIN LOGISTICSHENDERSONVILLE
- SHEPHERD FARMFLAT ROCK