Sumner County, TN
The federal environmental record for Sumner County (population 207,994): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
12
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Sumner 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)
12 facilities in Sumner filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. TVA GALLATIN FOSSIL PLANT | GALLATIN | Barium And Barium Compounds, Ammonia | 1.6M lb |
| ASCENT BUILDINGS LLC | PORTLAND | Manganese, Mixture | 28k lb |
| DEPOR INDUSTRIES-SOUTH | PORTLAND | Zinc compounds, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 15k lb |
| INSTEEL WIRE PRODUCTS | GALLATIN | Zinc compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 10k lb |
| HOEGANAES CORP | GALLATIN | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 10k lb |
| BERETTA USA | GALLATIN | Lead | 9k lb |
| SIMPSON STRONG TIE | GALLATIN | Chromium, Nickel | 6k lb |
| AMERICAN COLORS INC. DISPERSION FACILITY GALLATIN TN | GALLATIN | Styrene | 1k lb |
| JOHN L. ARMITAGE & CO. | GALLATIN | Styrene | 816 lb |
| KIRBY BUILDING SYSTEM | PORTLAND | Manganese, Lead | 15 lb |
| TMS INTERNATIONAL LLC | GALLATIN | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Nickel And Nickel Compounds | 3 lb |
| ALADDIN TEMP-RITE | HENDERSONVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 288 tank facilities in Sumner: 270 tanks in service and 582 closed. 257 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Sumner 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Sumner, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ROCKLAND ROAD SULFURIC ACID RELEASEHENDERSONVILLE
- TVA GALLATIN FOSSIL PLANTGALLATIN