Stokes County, NC
The federal environmental record for Stokes County (population 45,532): 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
2
TRI facilities
45
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Stokes 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 Stokes filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 671k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS LLC - BELEWS CREEK STEAM STATION | WALNUT COVE | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), n-Hexane | 670k lb |
| WIELAND COPPER PRODUCTS LLC | PINE HALL | Copper, Arsenic | 1k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 160 tank facilities in Stokes: 135 tanks in service and 365 closed. 135 fuel releases are on record, of which 45 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Stokes as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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 - $39