White County, TN
The federal environmental record for White County (population 28,692): 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
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving White 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DEWHITE UTILITY DISTRICT TN0000190 | PFOS: 4.1 ng/L | above final limit |
| QUEBECK WALLING UTILITY DIST TN0000569 | PFBA: 11 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
4 facilities in White filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 5k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEST BATH SYSTEMS INC.-RANE A DIV OF BEST BATH | SPARTA | Styrene | 4k lb |
| TENNETEK INC | SPARTA | Copper compounds, Zinc compounds | 821 lb |
| BASF CORPORATION-SPARTA TN | SPARTA | - | 0 lb |
| BBB INDUSTRIES | SPARTA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 99 tank facilities in White: 62 tanks in service and 190 closed. 70 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps White 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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