Stewart County, TN
The federal environmental record for Stewart County (population 14,222): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Stewart 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NORTH STEWART UTILITY DISTRICT TN0000195 | PFBS: 3.1 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
2 facilities in Stewart filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.6M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. TVA CUMBERLAND FOSSIL PLANT | CUMBERLAND CITY | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 3.6M lb |
| GEORGIA-PACIFIC GYPSUM LLC | CUMBERLAND CITY | Lead compounds, Mercury compounds | 18 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 52 tank facilities in Stewart: 33 tanks in service and 107 closed. 36 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Stewart 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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