Davidson County, TN

The federal environmental record for Davidson County (population 712,334): 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 Davidson 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)

37 facilities in Davidson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 216k lb released. The 25 largest by volume:

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
NWI NASHVILLE LLC	NASHVILLE	Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Copper	77k lb
NASHVILLE WIRE PRODUCTS	NASHVILLE	Certain glycol ethers	32k lb
U S SMOKELESS TOBACCO CO	NASHVILLE	Nicotine and salts	21k lb
TYSON FRESH MEATS INC-GOODLETTSVILLE	GOODLETTSVILLE	Ammonia	19k lb
CLEMONS CONCRETE COATINGS	NASHVILLE	Certain glycol ethers, 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	18k lb
SUPERIOR INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS INC	OLD HICKORY	Dichloromethane, n-Hexane	8k lb
MIDSOUTH WIRE	NASHVILLE	Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	7k lb
AKZO NOBEL INC	NASHVILLE	Triglycidyl isocyanurate, Zinc compounds	6k lb
FIBERWEB INC.	OLD HICKORY	Trifluralin, Biphenyl	6k lb
AZZ GALVANIZING SERVICES-NASHVILLE	NASHVILLE	Zinc compounds, Lead	5k lb
CARLEX GLASS AMERICA LLC	NASHVILLE	Manganese And Manganese Compounds	3k lb
SHELL NASHVILLE TERMINAL	NASHVILLE	Ethylene, Toluene	3k lb
BLANCHARD TERMINAL CO - NASHVILLE 51 AVE TN TERMINAL	NASHVILLE	n-Hexane, Toluene	3k lb
MPLX TERMINALS LLC - NASHVILLE BORDEAUX TN TERMINAL	NASHVILLE	n-Hexane, Toluene	3k lb
DFA DAIRY BRANDS FLUID LLC DBA PURITY DAIRY	NASHVILLE	Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid	2k lb
CONE NASHVILLE LLC.	NASHVILLE	Methanol, n-Hexane	2k lb
PAULO PRODUCTS CO	NASHVILLE	Ammonia	355 lb
SINOMAX EAST INC.	LA VERGNE	Diisocyanates, Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)	254 lb
NASHVILLE WIRE PRODUCTS	NASHVILLE	Nickel compounds	95 lb
SAFETY-KLEEN SYSTEMS NASHVILLE (NAS)	NASHVILLE	Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Ethylene glycol	17 lb
MARATHON PETROLEUM CO - NASHVILLE TN ASP TERMINAL	NASHVILLE	Naphthalene, Lead And Lead Compounds	16 lb
TWB ANTIOCH	ANTIOCH	-	0 lb
CMC REBAR	NASHVILLE	-	0 lb
FOUR O CORP	GOODLETTSVILLE	-	0 lb
PROTRITION - NASHVILLE TN	NASHVILLE	-	0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 1,508 tank facilities in Davidson: 1,058 tanks in service and 3,299 closed. 1,282 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Davidson 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

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

ADVANCED PLATING FIRENASHVILLE
CARGILL STEEL & WIRE (CLOSED)NASHVILLE
FORD MOTOR CONASHVILLE
GAITHER CHEMICAL CORPORATIONNASHVILLE
GAO 149 - NASHVILLENASHVILLE
NWI NASHVILLE, LLCNASHVILLE
SAAD JOHN P & SON INCNASHVILLE
TENNESSEE WHEEL AND RUBBERNASHVILLE
TVA-MILLS CREEK DRUMSNASHVILLE
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTERNASHVILLE
WINGROVE DRUM DUMPNASHVILLE