Montgomery County, NC
The federal environmental record for Montgomery County (population 26,085): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
22
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Montgomery with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY WATER SYSTEM NC0362010 | PFOS: 4.4 ng/L PFHxA: 3.6 ng/L | above final limit |
| TROY, TOWN OF NC0362020 | PFOS: 5.5 ng/L PFHxA: 3.1 ng/L PFPeA: 3 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
9 facilities in Montgomery filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 179k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNILIN US MDF | MOUNT GILEAD | Methanol | 83k lb |
| JORDAN LUMBER & SUPPLY CO | MOUNT GILEAD | Methanol | 47k lb |
| TROY LUMBER CO | TROY | Methanol, Lead | 34k lb |
| FLAKEBOARD AMERICA LLC | BISCOE | Formaldehyde | 8k lb |
| SAPUTO CHEESE USA INC | TROY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 3k lb |
| SAPUTO CHEESE USA INC | BISCOE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 3k lb |
| MCRAE FOOTWEAR: TROY | TROY | Diisocyanates | 750 lb |
| GREDE II LLC | BISCOE | Copper, Lead | 319 lb |
| MOUNTAIRE FARMS INC- CANDOR FEED MILL | CANDOR | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 172 tank facilities in Montgomery: 122 tanks in service and 346 closed. 66 fuel releases are on record, of which 22 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Montgomery 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.
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