Bladen, NC
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 Bladen in North Carolina · Population: 29,591
Bladen, NC is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 8 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 7 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 40/100 (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 21.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 3 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 (7)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN | 14,408 | 0 |
| WHITE LAKE, TOWN OF | 5,770 | 1 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN, TOWN OF | 5,311 | 0 |
| BLADEN CO WTR DIST-EAST BLADEN | 4,310 | 0 |
| BLADENBORO, TOWN OF | 3,175 | 4 |
| CLARKTON, TOWN OF | 1,233 | 0 |
| DUBLIN, TOWN OF | 603 | 2 |
TRI Facilities (8)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp - Tar Heel | 18.8M lbs |
| 2 | Chemours Co - Fayetteville Works | 1.2M lbs |
| 3 | Dupont Fayetteville | 553.7K lbs |
| 4 | Kuraray America-Fayetteville | 493.4K lbs |
| 5 | Murphy-Brown LLC Bladeboro Feed Mill | 167 lbs |
| 6 | Campbell Oil & Gas Co. | 0 lbs |
| 7 | Dynapar Corp DBA Specialty Product Technologies | 0 lbs |
| 8 | S&w Elizabethtown Plant | 0 lbs |
Cities in Bladen (3)
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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.