Gaston, NC
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 Gaston in North Carolina · Population: 231,485
Gaston, NC is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 28 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 21 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 58/100 (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 1.3M 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 (21)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| MOUNT HOLLY, CITY OF | 19,200 | 0 |
| BELMONT, CITY OF | 17,477 | 0 |
| DALLAS, TOWN OF | 8,125 | 26 |
| CHERRYVILLE, CITY OF | 6,353 | 1 |
| BESSEMER CITY, CITY OF | 5,690 | 26 |
| STANLEY, TOWN OF | 5,453 | 1 |
| RANLO, TOWN OF | 4,511 | 1 |
| LOWELL, CITY OF | 3,837 | 1 |
| BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE | 1,325 | 0 |
| MCADENVILLE, TOWN OF | 930 | 0 |
| HIGH SHOALS, CITY OF | 729 | 5 |
| MCADENVILLE CROSSROADS | 470 | 0 |
| SPENCER MOUNTAIN VILLAGE | 442 | 0 |
| WINDSOR HEIGHTS MHP | 178 | 0 |
| RAGAN VILLAGE WATER ASSOC | 100 | 1 |
| COUNTRYSIDE ESTATES MHP | 99 | 0 |
| HICKORY GROVE MHP | 69 | 0 |
| ALLEN MHP LLC | 64 | 2 |
| WINDY HILL MHP | 58 | 0 |
| DELLINGER`S MHP | 53 | 0 |
| FOREST ESTATES MHP (SC4660112) | 40 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (28)
Cities in Gaston (9)
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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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.