Oconee County, SC
The federal environmental record for Oconee County (population 81,221): 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
14
TRI facilities
27
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Oconee 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)
14 facilities in Oconee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 91k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASF METALS LLC | SENECA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 54k lb |
| SEALED AIR CORP CRYOVAC DIV | SENECA | Ozone | 31k lb |
| BASF CORP | SENECA | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 2k lb |
| GREENFIELD INDUSTRIES | SENECA | Chromium, Cobalt | 2k lb |
| JTEKT BEARINGS N.A. LLC - WALHALLA SC PLANT | WEST UNION | Methanol | 1k lb |
| CLARIOS LLC | WEST UNION | Lead compounds | 973 lb |
| LIFT TECHNOLOGIES INC. | WESTMINSTER | Manganese | 168 lb |
| SANDVIK MACHINING SOLUTIONS USA LLC | WESTMINSTER | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Cobalt | 122 lb |
| ULBRICH PRECISION FLAT WIRE | WESTMINSTER | Lead | 32 lb |
| SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC | SENECA | Copper | 2 lb |
| BORGWARNER POWER DRIVE SYSTEMS | SENECA | - | 0 lb |
| CONCRETE SUPPLY CO. LLC - CLEMSON | SENECA | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
| MORGAN CONCRETE CO | WESTMINSTER | Lead And Lead Compounds | 0 lb |
| ITRON INC. | WEST UNION | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 275 tank facilities in Oconee: 154 tanks in service and 662 closed. 134 fuel releases are on record, of which 27 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Oconee as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 4 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 Oconee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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