Scotland County, NC
The federal environmental record for Scotland County (population 34,376): 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
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
31
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Scotland 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)
4 facilities in Scotland filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 657k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAILROAD FRICTION PRODUCTS CORP | MAXTON | n-Hexane, Toluene | 527k lb |
| PILKINGTON NA | LAURINBURG | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 130k lb |
| MURPHY-BROWN LLC LAURINBURG FEED MILL | LAURINBURG | Zinc (fume or dust), Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 38 lb |
| SCOTLAND COUNTY FEED MILL | MAXTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 167 tank facilities in Scotland: 162 tanks in service and 364 closed. 82 fuel releases are on record, of which 31 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Scotland 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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