Richland County, SC
The federal environmental record for Richland County (population 425,138): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
3
Superfund NPL sites
15
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
34
TRI facilities
100
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmetto Recycling, Inc. | Columbia | deleted | 07/22/1987 |
| SCRDI Bluff Road | Columbia | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
| Townsend Saw Chain Co. | Pontiac | on the NPL | 02/21/1990 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Richland with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| COLUMBIA CITY OF (SC4010001) SC4010001 | HFPO-DA: 9.2 ng/L PFOS: 8.6 ng/L PFOA: 6.9 ng/L | above final limit |
| FORT JACKSON (4010501) SC4010501 | PFPeA: 9.5 ng/L HFPO-DA: 8.1 ng/L PFHxA: 7.3 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
34 facilities in Richland filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.4M lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYLVAMO EASTOVER MILL | EASTOVER | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 1.9M lb |
| WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CO LLC | HOPKINS | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 452k lb |
| DOMINION ENERGY SOUTH CAROLINA - WATEREE STATION | EASTOVER | Barium And Barium Compounds, Vanadium compounds | 399k lb |
| SEA-HUNT BOAT MANUFACTURING CO INC | COLUMBIA | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 254k lb |
| U.S. ARMY FORT JACKSON | FORT JACKSON | Copper, Lead | 138k lb |
| CHARTER NEXT GENERATION - BLYTHEWOOD | BLYTHEWOOD | Ozone | 100k lb |
| AMERICAN ITALIAN PASTA CO | COLUMBIA | Sulfuryl fluoride | 46k lb |
| XERXES BLYTHEWOOD | BLYTHEWOOD | Styrene | 27k lb |
| ENGINEERED COMPOSITES | COLUMBIA | Styrene | 22k lb |
| FN AMERICA LLC | COLUMBIA | Trichloroethylene, Lead | 12k lb |
| PRECOAT METALS | COLUMBIA | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Certain glycol ethers | 10k lb |
| LINDAU CHEMICALS INC. | COLUMBIA | 1,3-Butadiene, Phthalic anhydride | 9k lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC. - PLANT 14 | COLUMBIA | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead | 3k lb |
| SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA INC. | HOPKINS | Copper | 2k lb |
| OWEN STEEL CO | COLUMBIA | Zinc compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 2k lb |
| HUSQVARNA CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS N.A. INC. | COLUMBIA | Copper | 1k lb |
| KEMIRA WATER SOLUTIONS INC | EASTOVER | Chlorine, Chlorine dioxide | 794 lb |
| INTERTAPE POLYMER GROUP | BLYTHEWOOD | Diisocyanates | 139 lb |
| US BRICK | COLUMBIA | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 37 lb |
| TRANE | COLUMBIA | Copper, Chromium | 10 lb |
| CONCRETE SUPPLY CO LLC BLYTHEWOOD | BLYTHEWOOD | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 4 lb |
| CHEMSTATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA | COLUMBIA | - | 0 lb |
| JTEKT AUTOMOTIVE NA LLC - BLYTHEWOOD SC | BLYTHEWOOD | - | 0 lb |
| SUN COAST RESOURCES LLC | COLUMBIA | - | 0 lb |
| RINKER COLUMBIA PIPE | COLUMBIA | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,027 tank facilities in Richland: 651 tanks in service and 2,325 closed. 647 fuel releases are on record, of which 100 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Richland 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 Richland, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CARDINAL COMPANIES L PCOLUMBIA
- COLUMBIA ORGANIC CHEMICAL-DRAKECOLUMBIA
- COLUMBIA PHOSPHATECOLUMBIA
- DIVEXCOLUMBIA
- DREYFUS STREET SITECOLUMBIA
- GLOBE PHOSPHATE COMPANYCOLUMBIA
- PALMETTO RECYCLING, INC.COLUMBIA
- PINEBROOK SUBDIVISION CHEMICAL SPILLCOLUMBIA
- ROYAL PINES SUBDIVISIONCOLUMBIA
- ROYSTER GUANOCOLUMBIA
- SCRDI BLUFF ROADCOLUMBIA
- SHADY DEALSCOLUMBIA
- TOWNSEND SAW CHAIN CO.ELGIN
- US ARMY FORT JACKSONFORT JACKSON
- VIRGINIA CAROLINA CHEMICAL (VCC) COLUMBIACOLUMBIA