Loudon County, TN
The federal environmental record for Loudon County (population 60,591): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Loudon 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LENOIR CITY UTILITY BOARD TN0000396 | PFBS: 6.2 ng/L PFOS: 4.6 ng/L PFHxA: 4.6 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
10 facilities in Loudon filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.4M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISKASE CORP | LOUDON | Carbon disulfide, Hydrogen sulfide | 2.3M lb |
| REAL ALLOY RECYCLING LLC | LOUDON | Aluminum (fume or dust), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 435k lb |
| KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP LOUDON MILL | LOUDON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 191k lb |
| MALIBU BOATS LLC | LOUDON | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 146k lb |
| HUBBELL LENOIR CITY INC | LENOIR CITY | Styrene, Ethylbenzene | 133k lb |
| PRIMARY PRODUCTS INGREDIENTS LOUDON | LOUDON | Acetaldehyde, Ammonia | 109k lb |
| COBALT BOATS LLC | LENOIR CITY | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 44k lb |
| PROTOMET CORP | LOUDON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 19k lb |
| RECKLESS INDUSTRIES MOLD DIV LLC | GREENBACK | Styrene | 3k lb |
| LAMBCON INC. | GREENBACK | Xylene (mixed isomers), Nickel | 50 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 128 tank facilities in Loudon: 125 tanks in service and 250 closed. 90 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Loudon 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 Loudon, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CHEESTANA WAY PESTICIDE RELEASELOUDON
- LENOIR CAR WORKS/DUMP AREALENOIR CITY
- WATKINS ROAD DRUM SITELOUDON