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Washington County, TN

The federal environmental record for Washington County (population 138,420): 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

6

TRI facilities

1

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Washington 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)

6 facilities in Washington filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 136k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
LPI INCJOHNSON CITYStyrene126k lb
AMERICAN WATER HEATER COJOHNSON CITYBarium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds8k lb
DENTSPLY SIRONAJOHNSON CITYNickel, Toluene2k lb
CROWN LABORATORIES INCJOHNSON CITYZinc compounds631 lb
JTEKT BEARINGS NA LLC - WASHINGTON PLANTTELFORDMethanol10 lb
ALEMITEJOHNSON CITY-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 406 tank facilities in Washington: 246 tanks in service and 885 closed. 369 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Washington 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.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Washington, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

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