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Marlboro County, SC

The federal environmental record for Marlboro County (population 25,704): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

0

Superfund NPL sites

5

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

5

TRI facilities

32

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Marlboro 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)

5 facilities in Marlboro filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.3M lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
DOMTAR PAPER COBENNETTSVILLEMethanol, Ammonia1.2M lb
FLAKEBOARD AMERICA LTD BENNETTSVILLEBENNETTSVILLEMethanol, Ammonia114k lb
J. L. ANDERSON CO. INC.WALLACEHydrogen fluoride, Manganese2k lb
FCI BENNETTSVILLEBENNETTSVILLELead602 lb
MARLEY ENGINEERED PRODUCTSBENNETTSVILLECopper, Lead11 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 163 tank facilities in Marlboro: 90 tanks in service and 364 closed. 97 fuel releases are on record, of which 32 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Marlboro 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 Marlboro, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • BORO WOOD PRODUCTSBENNETTSVILLE
  • COVINGTON FABRICSMCCOLL
  • DELTA MILLS INC DELTA 2 & 3WALLACE
  • DELTA MILLS INC DELTA 2 & 3WALLACE
  • MARIE COTTON MILLMCCOLL