Richmond, GA
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 Richmond in Georgia · Population: 206,040
Richmond, GA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 24 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 48/100 (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 32.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 3 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. EPA Air Quality System monitors logged a median AQI of 51 and a peak AQI of 105 in 2024, with 49% of observed days rated "Good" (0–50).
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.
Air Quality History (2020–2024)
EPA Air Quality Index (AQI) data showing how many days per year fall into each air quality category.
| Year | Good | Moderate | Unhealthy (SG) | Max AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 176 (49%) | 181 | 1 | 105 |
| 2023 | 170 (47%) | 195 | 0 | 93 |
| 2022 | 195 (53%) | 170 | 0 | 99 |
| 2021 | 174 (48%) | 183 | 7 | 145 |
| 2020 | 175 (48%) | 190 | 1 | 114 |
Source: EPA Air Quality System (AQS) Annual AQI by County EPA Air Quality System (AQS) Annual AQI by County AQI categories: Good (0-50), Moderate (51-100), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (101-150), Unhealthy (151-200), Very Unhealthy (201-300), Hazardous (301+)
For real-time air quality readings and pollutant breakdowns in Georgia, see the EPA's AirNow.gov.
Water Systems (7)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| AUGUSTA-RICHMOND CO WS | 204,000 | 1 |
| HEPHZIBAH | 6,941 | 2 |
| BLYTHE | 1,482 | 0 |
| BROWN TERRACE SUBDIVISION | 96 | 1 |
| OAKVIEW MOBILE HOME PARK | 96 | 0 |
| MOBILE CITY MOBILE HOME PARK | 87 | 0 |
| GEORGIA HOMES AT LIVE OAK | 75 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (24)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer LP | 21.7M lbs |
| 2 | Clearwater Paper - Augusta Mill | 9.4M lbs |
| 3 | US Battery Manufacturing Co | 455.5K lbs |
| 4 | Solvay Specialty Polymers USA L.L.C. | 336.7K lbs |
| 5 | U.S. Army HQ Signal Center Fort Gordon | 73.6K lbs |
| 6 | Augusta Newsprint Co LLC | 61.7K lbs |
| 7 | Modern Welding Co of Georgia,inc. | 31.4K lbs |
| 8 | Fpl Food LLC | 10.5K lbs |
| 9 | General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 50 | 7.9K lbs |
| 10 | Kemira Water Solutions Inc. | 4.1K lbs |
| 11 | Gcp Applied Technologies Inc | 2.4K lbs |
| 12 | Kendall Patient Recovery LLC | 900 lbs |
| 13 | Manus Bio | 696 lbs |
| 14 | Ssc-Augusta | 600 lbs |
| 15 | E-Z-Go a Textron Co | 364 lbs |
| 16 | Pvs Technologies Inc. (augusta) | 321 lbs |
| 17 | Covestro LLC | 320 lbs |
| 18 | Innovative Chemical Technologies Inc | 230 lbs |
| 19 | Oxerra Americas LLC | 32 lbs |
| 20 | Olin Corp | 7 lbs |
| 21 | Reladyne - A&w Oil Co | 6 lbs |
| 22 | Reeves Construction Company- Riverwatch | 1 lbs |
| 23 | Argos Augusta Concrete Co | 0 lbs |
| 24 | Augusta Ready Mix | 0 lbs |
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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.