Bartow, GA

Moderate Risk (47/100)

A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against every other tracked county rather than against fixed national thresholds.

Environmental data for Bartow in Georgia · Population: 111,153

Bartow, GA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 26 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 8 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 47/100 (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 5.5M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 1 water system carries 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.

Population
111,153
TRI Facilities
26
Water Systems
8
Superfund Sites
0
Total Releases
5.5M lbs

Water Systems (8)

System Population Violations
BARTOW COUNTY 70,243 0
CARTERSVILLE 24,830 0
ADAIRSVILLE 7,306 1
EMERSON 1,435 0
KINGSTON 1,263 0
WHITE 900 0
WATERSIDE SUBDIVISION 107 0
CEDAR HILL MOBILE HOME PARK 60 0

TRI Facilities (26)

# Facility Total Releases
1 Bowen Steam Electric Generating Plant 3.3M lbs
2 Gerdau Ameristeel Cartersville Steel Mill 934.0K lbs
3 Innovative Chemical Technologies Inc. 531.7K lbs
4 Zep Commercial 488.8K lbs
5 Chemical Products Corp 138.4K lbs
6 Anheuser-Busch LLC Cartersvi Lle Brewery 70.8K lbs
7 Cetco 12.3K lbs
8 Atco Rubber Products Inc 11.4K lbs
9 Carlisle Polyurethane Systems 10.9K lbs
10 Res-Tek Inc. 3.9K lbs
11 Innovative Chemical Technologies Inc 3.5K lbs
12 Ampacet Corp 2.7K lbs
13 Wr Meadows of Georgia 2.5K lbs
14 Vmc Specialty Alloys LLC 1.6K lbs
15 Pandel Inc 708 lbs
16 Toyo Tire Na Manufacturing Inc 182 lbs
17 Skyline Steel Llc-Cartersville 152 lbs
18 Morgan Truck Body Llc- Mga Rydal 14 lbs
19 Argos Cartersville Concrete Plant 1 lbs
20 Thomas Concrete - Emerson 0 lbs
21 Thomas Concrete of Georgia - Adairsville 0 lbs
22 Thomas Concrete - Cartersville 0 lbs
23 Georgia Masonry Supply Cartersville 0 lbs
24 Magnum Products 0 lbs
25 Ready Mix USA - Cartersville 0 lbs
26 Tyson Poultry Inc-(bolivar Feed Mill) 0 lbs

Cities in Bartow (5)

Cartersville
Pop: -
19 facilities · 3 water
Acworth
Pop: -
4 facilities · 0 water
Emerson
Pop: -
1 facilities · 2 water
Rydal
Pop: -
1 facilities · 0 water
White
Pop: -
1 facilities · 1 water

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the environmental risk level in Bartow, Georgia?
Bartow, GA has an environmental risk score of 47/100 (Moderate Risk), based on 26 TRI facilities, 0 Superfund sites, and 8 water systems on record. 1 water system have health-based violations. Source: EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL.
Are there Superfund sites in Bartow?
No Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) sites are currently registered in Bartow, GA in the EPA database.
How many toxic release facilities are in Bartow?
Bartow, GA has 26 TRI-reporting facilities on record with the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, with a combined total of 5.5M lbs in reported toxic releases. TRI facilities self-report annual chemical release data to the EPA.
What is the air quality in Bartow?
Air quality monitoring data (EPA AQS) is not available for Bartow, GA. This may indicate no EPA monitoring stations are located in the county. For regional air quality data, see the state environmental profile or visit EPA's AirNow.gov.
Is the drinking water safe in Bartow?
Bartow, GA has 8 EPA-regulated water systems. 1 system has reported health-based violations (MCL exceedances). A past violation does not necessarily mean water is currently unsafe. For current water quality, contact your local water utility. Source: EPA SDWIS.
What environmental agencies cover Bartow?
Environmental compliance in Bartow, Georgia is overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the federal level and the Georgia state environmental agency. Facilities report to the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, water systems are regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and contaminated sites are managed under the Superfund program. Contact your state environmental agency for local concerns.

What does this county environmental profile show?

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.

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Data sourced from U.S. EPA environmental datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainEnviro Editorial