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Henry County, VA

The federal environmental record for Henry County (population 49,702): 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

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

11

TRI facilities

3

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Henry 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)

11 facilities in Henry filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 744k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC - PLANT IIFIELDALEEthylene glycol, N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone448k lb
CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGINGRIDGEWAYCertain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol90k lb
RTI MARTINSVILLE INCMARTINSVILLEAluminum (fume or dust)82k lb
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC-AXTON FACILITYAXTONEthylene glycol, N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone67k lb
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC-PLANT 1FIELDALEToluene51k lb
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLCMARTINSVILLEToluene, Ethylene glycol7k lb
VIRGINIA MIRROR LLCMARTINSVILLELead compounds321 lb
MEHLER ENGINEERED PRODUCTSMARTINSVILLEToluene, Xylene (mixed isomers)125 lb
FERRATEX SOLUTIONS LLCMARTINSVILLEStyrene35 lb
QUIKRETE - MARTINSVILLE VA PLANTMARTINSVILLELead1 lb
NATIONWIDE HOMES INC.MARTINSVILLE-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 311 tank facilities in Henry: 228 tanks in service and 723 closed. 102 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Henry 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 Henry, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • OLD BASSETT WAREHOUSE FIREBASSETT
  • PIEDMONT HOMES SITEMARTINSVILLE
  • RED BIRCH ENERGYBASSETT