Bladen, NC
Transparent derived index from EPA TRI / SDWIS / Superfund extracts: not an official EPA rating. Fixed caps: facilities ≤25 pts (50+ = max), log10 releases ≤25 pts, Superfund ≤25 pts (5/site), health-violation systems ≤15 pts (3/system), high-chemical facilities ≤10 pts. Bands: High ≥60, Moderate ≥30. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against other tracked counties rather than against these fixed caps.
Environmental data for Bladen in North Carolina · Population: 29,591
TRI sites such as Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp - Tar Heel; Chemours Co - Fayetteville Works; Dupont Fayetteville; SDWIS systems such as BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN; WHITE LAKE, TOWN OF; ELIZABETHTOWN, TOWN OF anchor Bladen, NC's EPA extract. Derived burden score 40/100 (Moderate Risk) uses fixed national caps on density, log release volume, Superfund count, and health-flagged systems - not an official EPA rating.
Health-flagged SDWIS rows in Bladen include WHITE LAKE, TOWN OF; BLADENBORO, TOWN OF; DUBLIN, TOWN OF, while Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp - Tar Heel leads reported TRI pounds among local Form R filers. No AQS county monitors report here.
Burden score 40/100 (Moderate Risk) is the only weighted composite on this page. The tables below list every TRI facility, SDWIS system, and Superfund site EPA has on record for Bladen -- not just the names called out above -- reproducing the disclosure history as filed, not a current-safety verdict. Extract current as of 2026-08-25.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Bladen, NC: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
+12.5%
7 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
+12.5%
3.5 million lb → 3.9 million lb, every facility that filed
Between the two reporting years, 0 facilities filed for the first time and 1 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Bladen, NC's total reported releases rose from 3.5 million lb in 2022 to 3.9 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bladen, NC's off-site transfers fell from 143.4 thousand lb in 2022 to 33.2 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bladen, NC's air releases rose from 151.9 thousand lb in 2022 to 203.6 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bladen, NC's water releases rose from 3.2 million lb in 2022 to 3.7 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Water Systems (7)
| System | System pop (SDWIS) | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN | 14,408 | 0 |
| WHITE LAKE, TOWN OF | 5,770 | 2 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN, TOWN OF | 5,311 | 0 |
| BLADEN CO WTR DIST-EAST BLADEN | 4,310 | 0 |
| BLADENBORO, TOWN OF | 3,175 | 5 |
| CLARKTON, TOWN OF | 1,233 | 0 |
| DUBLIN, TOWN OF | 603 | 3 |
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 (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.