Bradley County, TN
The federal environmental record for Bradley County (population 111,579): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Bradley 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OCOEE UTILITY DISTRICT TN0000525 | PFBS: 41 ng/L PFOA: 6 ng/L PFPeA: 4.8 ng/L | above final limit |
| CLEVELAND UTILITIES TN0000117 | PFBS: 32.7 ng/L PFBA: 10 ng/L PFPeA: 3.3 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
15 facilities in Bradley filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 271k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INNOVATIVE WATER CARE LLC A SOLENIS CO | CHARLESTON | Chlorine | 121k lb |
| DURACELL | CLEVELAND | Manganese compounds, Zinc compounds | 87k lb |
| EATON CORP | CLEVELAND | Certain glycol ethers, Copper | 16k lb |
| ASCENT CHEMICALS | CLEVELAND | n-Butyl alcohol, Chloroacetic acid | 15k lb |
| MARS WRIGLEY | CLEVELAND | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 14k lb |
| MUELLER CO-CLEVELAND | CLEVELAND | Xylene (mixed isomers), Methyl isobutyl ketone | 10k lb |
| POLARTEC TENNESSEE MANUFACTURING | CLEVELAND | Certain glycol ethers | 3k lb |
| WHIRLPOOL - CLEVELAND OPERATIONS | CLEVELAND | Nickel And Nickel Compounds, Chromium | 2k lb |
| WACKER POLYSILICON N.A. | CHARLESTON | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Chlorine | 2k lb |
| FORMULATED SOLUTIONS CLEVELAND LLC | CLEVELAND | Zinc compounds | 521 lb |
| CORMETECH INC | CLEVELAND | Vanadium compounds | 439 lb |
| OLIN CORP CHARLESTON PLANT | CHARLESTON | Chlorine, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 165 lb |
| LAMBCON | CLEVELAND | Toluene, Benzene | 20 lb |
| CANNON AUTOMOTIVE SOLUTIONS | MC DONALD | Chromium, Manganese | 7 lb |
| ADM MILLING CO | CLEVELAND | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 263 tank facilities in Bradley: 233 tanks in service and 554 closed. 255 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bradley 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 Bradley, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- INNOVATIVE WATER CARE, LLC DBA SOLENISCHARLESTON
- JACK GOINS WASTE OILCLEVELAND