Alamance, NC
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Alamance in North Carolina · Population: 174,286
Alamance, NC is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 13 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 23 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 46/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 651.0K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 6 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (23)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| MEBANE, CITY OF | 20,212 | 0 |
| GRAHAM, CITY OF | 18,354 | 0 |
| ELON, TOWN OF | 11,350 | 0 |
| ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM | 9,223 | 9 |
| HAW RIVER, TOWN OF | 2,650 | 0 |
| SWEPSONVILLE, TOWN OF | 2,497 | 0 |
| GREEN LEVEL, TOWN OF | 2,450 | 0 |
| OSSIPEE TOWN OF | 2,390 | 3 |
| VILLAGE OF ALAMANCE | 1,100 | 0 |
| SAXAPAHAW UTILITY COMPANY | 994 | 1 |
| SLEEPY HOLLOW ESTATES MHP | 240 | 1 |
| COUNTRY CLUB MHP | 127 | 0 |
| SOUTH SAXAPAHAW UTILITY COMPANY | 108 | 0 |
| STERLING RIDGE S/D | 104 | 0 |
| CIRCLE K PARK | 97 | 0 |
| MAPLE VIEW MHP | 96 | 0 |
| MAPLE OAKS MHP | 84 | 4 |
| LINEBERRY MHP | 82 | 0 |
| ROBBEN MH COURT | 75 | 3 |
| RUSSETTE MEADOWS MHP | 65 | 0 |
| KIRBY`S MHP | 60 | 0 |
| MEADOWLANE ESTATES MHP | 48 | 0 |
| SELLARS MOBILE HOME PARK | 48 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (13)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Atlantic Galvanizing | 511.9K lbs |
| 2 | Canfor Southern Pine - Graham Plant | 62.0K lbs |
| 3 | Liggett Group LLC | 53.6K lbs |
| 4 | Indulor America LP | 10.3K lbs |
| 5 | Burlington Finishing Plant | 6.6K lbs |
| 6 | Apollo Chemical | 4.0K lbs |
| 7 | North Carolina Manufacturing | 2.2K lbs |
| 8 | Engineered Controls International LLC | 379 lbs |
| 9 | Edwards Wood Products Inc. | 8 lbs |
| 10 | Hydro Extrusion USA LLC | 1 lbs |
| 11 | Concrete Supply Co. LLC - Hatchery Rd | 0 lbs |
| 12 | Huffman Oil Co Inc | 0 lbs |
| 13 | Revere South Inc. | 0 lbs |
Cities in Alamance (6)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.