Bristol County, RI
The federal environmental record for Bristol County (population 50,255): 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
2
TRI facilities
12
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Bristol 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 Bristol filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 8k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| COVALENCE SPECIALTY ADHESIVES LLC | BRISTOL | Toluene | 7k lb |
| SAINT-GOBAIN | BRISTOL | Xylene (mixed isomers), N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone | 2k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 147 tank facilities in Bristol: 48 tanks in service and 383 closed. 114 fuel releases are on record, of which 12 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bristol 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 - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Bristol, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BRISTOL LANDFILLBRISTOL
- BRISTOL SANDBLASTINGWARREN
- BUTTONWOOD INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXBRISTOL
- WARREN TOWN LANDFILLWARREN