Swain County, NC
The federal environmental record for Swain County (population 13,916): 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
1
TRI facilities
14
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Swain 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)
1 facilities in Swain filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CONCRETE MATERIALS-BRYSON CITY PLANT | BRYSON CITY | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 107 tank facilities in Swain: 101 tanks in service and 199 closed. 47 fuel releases are on record, of which 14 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Swain 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.
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