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Barnwell County, SC

The federal environmental record for Barnwell County (population 20,447): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

1

Superfund NPL sites

8

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

4

TRI facilities

16

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

SiteCityStatusListed
Shuron Inc.Barnwellon the NPL12/23/1996

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Barnwell 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 Barnwell filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 184k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
BEFESA ZINC US INC.BARNWELLZinc compounds, Manganese compounds109k lb
AUGUSTA FIBERGLASS COATINGS INCBLACKVILLEStyrene67k lb
AUGUSTA FIBERGLASS COATINGS INCBLACKVILLEStyrene5k lb
CRANE PAYMENT INNOVATIONSWILLISTONDiisocyanates3k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 95 tank facilities in Barnwell: 66 tanks in service and 233 closed. 62 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Barnwell 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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All federal cleanup sites on file

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

  • ADMIRAL HOME APPLIANCESWILLISTON
  • ALUMINUM FINISHING OF SOUTH CAROLINABARNWELL
  • BARNWELL TOWN DUMPBARNWELL
  • SHURON INC.BARNWELL
  • STARMET CMIBARNWELL
  • TOWN OF HILDA DUMPHILDA
  • WILLISTON MERCURY RELEASEBLACKVILLE
  • WISE FARM SITEBLACKVILLE