Blount County, TN
The federal environmental record for Blount County (population 141,456): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
11
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Blount 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)
11 facilities in Blount filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 775k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCONIC US LLC | ALCOA | Aluminum (fume or dust), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 479k lb |
| SKIER'S CHOICE INC | MARYVILLE | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 250k lb |
| SANFORD BRANDS | MARYVILLE | n-Butyl alcohol | 41k lb |
| NISUS CORP | ROCKFORD | Copper compounds, Zinc compounds | 4k lb |
| RECKLESS INDUSTRIES LLC | MARYVILLE | Styrene | 825 lb |
| DENSO MANUFACTURING TENNESSEE INC | MARYVILLE | Lead, Zinc (fume or dust) | 425 lb |
| FLEX-N-GATE ROCKFORD | ROCKFORD | Methyl isobutyl ketone, n-Butyl alcohol | 265 lb |
| ROYAL METAL POWDERS INC. | MARYVILLE | Copper, Lead | 257 lb |
| SMOKY MOUNTAIN METALS INC | MARYVILLE | Zinc compounds | 5 lb |
| SMITH & WESSON BRANDS INC. | MARYVILLE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lb |
| READY MIX USA LLC-ROCKFORD PLANT | MARYVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 301 tank facilities in Blount: 246 tanks in service and 728 closed. 215 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Blount as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 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 Blount, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA-NORTH PLANTALCOA
- ARCONIC TENNESSEE LLCALCOA
- USAF MCGHEE TYSON ANG BASEALCOA