Franklin, VT
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 Franklin in Vermont · Population: 50,379
Franklin, VT is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 10 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 17 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 39/100 (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 237.2K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 15 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 (17)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| ST ALBANS WATER DEPT | 10,200 | 3 |
| SWANTON VILLAGE WATER | 4,000 | 1 |
| RICHFORD WATER SYSTEM | 3,000 | 3 |
| ENOSBURG FALLS WATER SYSTEM | 1,700 | 1 |
| FAIRFAX WATER DEPT | 1,550 | 3 |
| MONTGOMERY WATER SYSTEM | 530 | 5 |
| SHELDON WATER SYSTEM | 480 | 1 |
| BAKERSFIELD FIRE DISTRICT 1 | 446 | 5 |
| EAST BERKSHIRE FIRE DISTRICT 1 | 184 | 4 |
| EAST FAIRFIELD FIRE DISTRICT 1 | 184 | 0 |
| FAIRFIELD FIRE DISTRICT 2 | 126 | 3 |
| DAIRY CENTER | 109 | 0 |
| FAIRFAX HEIGHTS WATER CO | 100 | 1 |
| HOMESTEAD ACRES MHP | 81 | 2 |
| FAIRFAX FIRE DISTRICT 1 | 80 | 1 |
| COLONIAL ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSN | 79 | 3 |
| SUNSET TERRACE ESTATES | 45 | 4 |
TRI Facilities (10)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklin Foods | 185.6K lbs |
| 2 | St Albans Creamery LLC | 40.6K lbs |
| 3 | Perrigo Nutritionals | 4.2K lbs |
| 4 | Mylan Technologies Inc | 3.3K lbs |
| 5 | Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc St Albans | 3.3K lbs |
| 6 | Kent Nutrition Group Inc | 250 lbs |
| 7 | Westrock Converting LLC | 30 lbs |
| 8 | Agway Inc St Albans Feed Mill | 0 lbs |
| 9 | Cargill Feed & Nutrition Swanton | 0 lbs |
| 10 | Mylan Technologies | 0 lbs |
Cities in Franklin (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.