Baxter, AR
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 Baxter in Arkansas · Population: 42,150
Baxter, AR is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 7 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 18 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 38/100 (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 1.2M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 9 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 (18)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN HOME WATERWORKS | 19,618 | 0 |
| NORTH EAST PUBLIC WATER AUTH | 4,690 | 0 |
| LAKEVIEW-MIDWAY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY | 4,383 | 0 |
| GASSVILLE WATERWORKS | 2,040 | 0 |
| CALICO ROCK WATERWORKS | 1,726 | 0 |
| BRUNNER HILL WATER ASSOC | 1,265 | 8 |
| COTTER WATERWORKS | 1,233 | 4 |
| NORFORK WATERWORKS | 918 | 0 |
| AR DEPT OF CORRECTION IZARD CO | 907 | 0 |
| SALESVILLE COMMUNITY WATER ASSOCIATION | 715 | 7 |
| BIG FLAT WATERWORKS | 523 | 0 |
| BRIARCLIFF WATERWORKS | 338 | 4 |
| EDGEWOOD BAY WATER | 308 | 3 |
| LAURELWOOD HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION | 90 | 12 |
| AUTUMN ACRES MHP | 68 | 3 |
| STARLIGHT ESTATES | 67 | 8 |
| CRESTWOOD MOBILE HOME PARK | 34 | 0 |
| TALL OAKS MHP | 22 | 5 |
TRI Facilities (7)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baxter Healthcare Corp | 629.5K lbs |
| 2 | Triton Boats | 299.2K lbs |
| 3 | Bass Cat Boats & Yar-Craft Boats | 248.2K lbs |
| 4 | Danfoss-Mountain Home | 34.1K lbs |
| 5 | American Stitchco Inc DBA American Epoxy Scientific | 8.2K lbs |
| 6 | Ez Loader Custom Boat Trailers Inc. | 543 lbs |
| 7 | Butterball Mountain Home | 0 lbs |
Cities in Baxter (2)
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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.