Hertford County, NC
The federal environmental record for Hertford County (population 19,453): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
52
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hertford 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)
2 facilities in Hertford filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUCOR STEEL HERTFORD COUNTY | COFIELD | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 1.1M lb |
| PERDUE AGRIBUSINESS LLC - COFIELD NC | COFIELD | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 214k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 148 tank facilities in Hertford: 95 tanks in service and 398 closed. 125 fuel releases are on record, of which 52 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hertford 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 Hertford, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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