Humphreys County, TN
The federal environmental record for Humphreys County (population 19,209): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Humphreys 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)
8 facilities in Humphreys filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 13.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEMOURS JOHNSONVILLE PLANT | NEW JOHNSONVILLE | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Carbonyl sulfide | 8.8M lb |
| VIBRANTZ SPECIALTY PRODUCTS LLC | NEW JOHNSONVILLE | Manganese compounds, Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 3.7M lb |
| HOOD CONTAINER CORP | WAVERLY | Ammonia, Methanol | 651k lb |
| SCEPTER INC | WAVERLY | Copper, Ammonia | 583k lb |
| MATHESON TRI-GAS-NEW JOHNSONVILLE TN BRANCH | WAVERLY | Zinc compounds, Arsenic And Arsenic Compounds | 162k lb |
| ALBEMARLE U.S. INC. | NEW JOHNSONVILLE | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 13k lb |
| U.S. TVA JOHNSONVILLE FOSSIL PLANT | NEW JOHNSONVILLE | Ammonia | 3k lb |
| OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP (OXYCHEM) | NEW JOHNSONVILLE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Chlorine | 1k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 104 tank facilities in Humphreys: 63 tanks in service and 212 closed. 80 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Humphreys 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 Humphreys, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- TVA JOHNSONVILLE FOSSIL PLANTNEW JOHNSONVILLE