Rhea County, TN
The federal environmental record for Rhea County (population 33,924): 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
7
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Rhea 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WATTS BAR UTILITY DISTRICT TN0000872 | PFBA: 7.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
7 facilities in Rhea filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 66k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUBER ENGINEERED WOODS LLC SPRING CITY FACILITY | SPRING CITY | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 63k lb |
| CYMER LLC DAYTON | DAYTON | Toluene, Methanol | 1k lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC PLANT 42 | SPRING CITY | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 1k lb |
| US TVA WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT | SPRING CITY | Lead | 462 lb |
| BAC DAYTON | DAYTON | Nickel, Chromium | 156 lb |
| NOKIAN TYRES | DAYTON | Zinc compounds | 47 lb |
| LA-Z-BOY TENNESSEE | DAYTON | Lead | 1 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 113 tank facilities in Rhea: 49 tanks in service and 240 closed. 106 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Rhea as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Rhea, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ROARING CREEK DUMPINGGRAYSVILLE
- TVA WATTS BAR HYDRO PLANTSPRING CITY
- TVA WATTS BAR STEAM PLANTSPRING CITY