Carter County, TN

The federal environmental record for Carter County (population 57,022): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Carter 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 Carter filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 124k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
SNAP-ON TOOLS CO	ELIZABETHTON	Chromium, Nickel	112k lb
COLORWORKS INC	ELIZABETHTON	Ammonia	10k lb
MAPES PIANO STRING CO	ELIZABETHTON	Lead	1k lb
BORLA PERFORMANCE INDUSTRIES INC	JOHNSON CITY	Chromium, Manganese	288 lb
AYM INC - TENNESSEE DISTRIBUTION CENTER	ELIZABETHTON	Copper, Lead	210 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 174 tank facilities in Carter: 110 tanks in service and 408 closed. 146 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Carter 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Carter, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

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