Colleton County, SC
The federal environmental record for Colleton County (population 38,874): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
25
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Colleton 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 Colleton filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 52k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAROLINA COMPOSITES | WALTERBORO | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 51k lb |
| BALCHEM CORP | GREEN POND | Propylene oxide, Ethylene oxide | 200 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | WALTERBORO | - | 0 lb |
| GEHL FOODS LLC | WALTERBORO | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 218 tank facilities in Colleton: 138 tanks in service and 474 closed. 151 fuel releases are on record, of which 25 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Colleton 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 Colleton, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BESTEEL INDUSTRIESWALTERBORO