Skip to content

States / North Carolina

Wilson County, NC

The federal environmental record for Wilson County (population 78,970): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

0

Superfund NPL sites

4

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

7

TRI facilities

99

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Wilson 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)

7 facilities in Wilson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 288k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS TIRE OPERATIONS LLCWILSONZinc compounds, Cobalt And Cobalt Compounds144k lb
ALLIANCE ONE N.A. LLCWILSONNicotine and salts, Ammonia124k lb
KIDDE AEROSPACE & DEFENSEWILSONBromotrifluoromethane (Halon 1301), Bromochlorodifluoromethane (Halon 1211)11k lb
ALLIANCE ONE SPECIALTY PRODUCTS LLCWILSONNicotine and salts, Ammonia9k lb
LINAMAR FORGING CAROLINAWILSONNickel, Chromium3 lb
ERGON ASPHALT & EMULSIONS INC. - WILSONWILSON-0 lb
RINKER WILSON PIPEWILSONLead0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 364 tank facilities in Wilson: 253 tanks in service and 834 closed. 283 fuel releases are on record, of which 99 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Wilson 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 - $39

All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Wilson, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • NATIONAL PIN SERVICESARATOGA
  • RALPH L. FIKE HIGH SCHOOLWILSON
  • TOISNOT SWAMPWILSON
  • WATER GUARDWILSON