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.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC - PLANT II | FIELDALE | Ethylene glycol, N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone | 448k lb |
| CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING | RIDGEWAY | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 90k lb |
| RTI MARTINSVILLE INC | MARTINSVILLE | Aluminum (fume or dust) | 82k lb |
| EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC-AXTON FACILITY | AXTON | Ethylene glycol, N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone | 67k lb |
| EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC-PLANT 1 | FIELDALE | Toluene | 51k lb |
| EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS LLC | MARTINSVILLE | Toluene, Ethylene glycol | 7k lb |
| VIRGINIA MIRROR LLC | MARTINSVILLE | Lead compounds | 321 lb |
| MEHLER ENGINEERED PRODUCTS | MARTINSVILLE | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 125 lb |
| FERRATEX SOLUTIONS LLC | MARTINSVILLE | Styrene | 35 lb |
| QUIKRETE - MARTINSVILLE VA PLANT | MARTINSVILLE | Lead | 1 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.
Get the report - $39All 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