TRI Facilities
661
Very high
AL · EPA TRI · SDWIS · Superfund
Alabama environmental disclosure record
According to EPA's 2023 Toxics Release Inventory, Safe Drinking Water Information System, and Superfund National Priorities List extracts, this is Alabama's full public registry profile, toxic releases, drinking-water systems, and Superfund sites in one place.
- TRI facilities
- 661
- Reported releases
- 411.6M lbs
- #8 of 56
- Water systems
- 546
- Superfund NPL sites
- 16
Alabama vs. every U.S. state
Cumulative TRI-reported release pounds, with this state marked in the national distribution
412M lbs Top 14% higher than 86% of 56 states with TRI reporters
Each bar is a $1M-wide band; taller bars hold more states with TRI reporters. The dashed line and filled bar mark this facility. Hover, focus, or tap a bar for its full count, share, and position.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
AL regulatory profile by statute
Violation/site counts mapped to the EPA statutes this portal tracks
- CWA · NPDES
- RCRA · Subtitle C 16
What this shows Counts are mapped to statute as a structural proxy and reflect reported activity, not toxicity-weighted or population-adjusted risk. Clean Air Act (Title V) permit data is not currently ingested by this portal, so air-permit compliance is not shown here.
How Alabama compares across two EPA disclosure measures
The highlighted point is Alabama. The vertical axis is the share of tracked water systems with at least one health-based SDWIS record; the horizontal axis is TRI-reported pounds per facility on a logarithmic scale so the full state distribution stays readable. The crosshairs use the portal’s published national benchmark medians.
This matrix compares disclosure rates, not toxicity, exposure, current compliance, or drinking-water safety. A lower position on either axis is not a safety rating; use the underlying facility and water-system records for context.
According to EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL extracts, Alabama (AL) lists 661 TRI-reporting facilities disclosing 411.6M lbs of toxic releases. The same extracts list 16 Superfund sites and 546 EPA-regulated water systems, of which 94 carry health-based SDWIS violation rows. PlainEnviro's composite environmental health score for Alabama is 67/100 (grade D), benchmarked against all U.S. states on chemical release intensity, drinking-water health violations, Superfund site burden, and water violation rate. This is a percentile-derived composite from federal disclosure counts, not a clinical health-risk assessment.
D 67
Alabama Environmental Health Score
A percentile-benchmarked 0–100 composite from 4 EPA federal datasets, with weight redistribution for any unavailable dimension
Chemical Release Intensity F 48
623K (lbs per facility) Drinking Water Health Violations B 87
17.2% (% of systems) Superfund Site Burden F 51
2.4 (sites per 100 facilities) Water Violation Rate B 83
1.0 (violations per system) Benchmarks derived from EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL extracts across all 56 U.S. states and territories
Water Systems
546
Moderate
Superfund Sites
16
Moderate
Total Releases
411.6M lbs
Very high
Compliance Snapshot - AL
Sites with no recorded health violations 92.2%
Sites with at least one open violation 7.8%
Alabama's profile joins three independently maintained EPA programs into one statewide record: the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI, EPCRA Section 313 industrial disclosures), the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS, Safe Drinking Water Act compliance), and the Superfund National Priorities List. Each program uses its own reporting cadence and facility-identification scheme; PlainEnviro joins them by matched facility and system location rather than a shared federal ID, so a site absent from one program is never assumed absent from another. The counts below reflect the portal's rebuild as of August 2026.
Activity clusters in counties such as Jefferson, Mobile, Madison, which account for the highest combined facility, water-system, and Superfund presence. Monitoring and reporting violations are not included in the SDWIS counts shown here.
Every figure reflects the public regulatory record as filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and is not weighted for toxicity, geographic footprint, or population exposure. A state can rank high in any individual metric because of industrial history, naturally occurring contaminants in source water, or simply the number of reporting facilities, not because current residents face unsafe conditions. Drill into any county or water system below for the full disclosure record.
What does this state's environmental record show?
TRI Facilities
661
Water Systems
546
Superfund Sites
16
Health-Based Violation Records
538
Total Releases
411.6M lbs
cumulative, all reported years
Systems with Records
94
water systems
Release-over-release change
What changed for Alabama: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
-7.4%
544 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
-7.4%
90.6 million lb → 84.0 million lb, every facility that filed
Between the two reporting years, 16 facilities filed for the first time and 32 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Alabama's total reported releases fell from 90.5 million lb in 2022 to 83.8 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Alabama's off-site transfers fell from 21.0 million lb in 2022 to 13.2 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Alabama's land releases rose from 27.5 million lb in 2022 to 31.4 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Alabama's air releases fell from 30.2 million lb in 2022 to 28.0 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Largest Polluters
View all →| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemical Waste Management | 95.6M lbs |
| 2 | Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC | 32.0M lbs |
| 3 | Alabama River Cellulose LLC | 23.9M lbs |
| 4 | International Paper | 13.9M lbs |
| 5 | Georgia-Pacific Naheola LLC | 13.5M lbs |
| 6 | Westrock Coated Board LLC | 11.8M lbs |
| 7 | Sanders Lead Co Inc. | 8.9M lbs |
| 8 | Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa Inc | 8.7M lbs |
| 9 | Georgia-Pacific Brewton LLC | 8.5M lbs |
| 10 | Miller Steam Plant | 8.0M lbs |
| 11 | Westrock Mill Co LLC | 8.0M lbs |
| 12 | Ssab Alabama Inc | 7.8M lbs |
| 13 | International Paper-Pine Hill Mill | 7.4M lbs |
| 14 | Koch Foods of Gadsden | 7.0M lbs |
| 15 | US Pipe & Foundry Co LLC | 6.9M lbs |
| 16 | Kennametal Inc DBA Kennametal Firth Sterling | 6.5M lbs |
| 17 | Indorama Ventures | 6.4M lbs |
| 18 | Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center | 5.8M lbs |
| 19 | Ascend Performance Materials Operations Llc-Decatur Plant | 5.5M lbs |
| 20 | American Cast Iron Pipe Co. | 5.3M lbs |
Water Quality
Systems with Health Violations
| Water System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| DEKALB-JACKSON WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT | 32,421 | 62 |
| CWM WATER AUTHORITY | 1,749 | 58 |
| GILBERTOWN, UTILITIES BOARD OF TOWN OF | 8,157 | 25 |
| MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY | 3,660 | 22 |
| DOUBLE SPRINGS, TOWN OF W&S BOARD | 6,075 | 21 |
| SWEET WATER, THE WW & SB OF THE TOWN OF | 465 | 20 |
| PRICHARD WATER WORKS BOARD | 29,190 | 18 |
| OLDE MILL TRACE S/D | 394 | 17 |
| ELBA, THE WW AND EB OF THE CITY OF | 5,361 | 14 |
| JACKSON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY | 7,800 | 14 |
| GLEN ALLEN WATER SYSTEM | 1,500 | 11 |
| WILCOX COUNTY WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT | 6,144 | 10 |
| PERDIDO BAY WATER SEWER & FPD | 12,765 | 10 |
| NORTH CLARKE WATER AUTHORITY | 984 | 10 |
| BUTLER WATER SYSTEM | 4,590 | 8 |
| THOMASVILLE WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD | 6,897 | 8 |
| VERNON WATER AND SEWER BOARD | 9,801 | 8 |
| TUSKEGEE, UTILITIES BOARD OF THE CITY OF | 12,900 | 8 |
| US ARMY GARRISON-REDSTONE ARSENAL | 44,472 | 8 |
| MID-CENTRAL WATER AUTHORITY | 2,325 | 8 |
Cities with Water Issues
Birmingham
48 water systems
Florence
5 water systems
Daphne
5 water systems
Montgomery
4 water systems
Bessemer
4 water systems
Tuscumbia
4 water systems
Attalla
4 water systems
Tuskegee
4 water systems
Tuscaloosa
3 water systems
Jasper
3 water systems
Scottsboro
3 water systems
Steele
3 water systems
Camden
3 water systems
Cleveland
3 water systems
Valley
3 water systems
Brewton
2 water systems
Phenix City
2 water systems
Hamilton
2 water systems
Northport
2 water systems
Opelika
2 water systems
Superfund Sites (16)
| Site Name | Status | HRS Score |
|---|---|---|
| 35th Avenue | Proposed NPL Site | 50.00 |
| Alabama Army Ammunition Plant | NPL Site | 36.83 |
| Alabama Plating Company, Inc. | NPL Site | 30.20 |
| American Brass | NPL Site | 55.61 |
| Anniston Army Depot (Southeast Industrial Area) | NPL Site | 51.91 |
| Ciba-Geigy Corp. (McIntosh Plant) | NPL Site | 53.42 |
| Interstate Lead Co. (ILCO) | NPL Site | 42.86 |
| Mowbray Engineering Co. | Deleted NPL Site | 53.67 |
| Olin Corp. (McIntosh Plant) | NPL Site | 39.71 |
| Perdido Ground Water Contamination | Deleted NPL Site | 30.29 |
| Redstone Arsenal (USARMY/NASA) | NPL Site | 50.00 |
| Redwing Carriers, Inc. (Saraland) | Deleted NPL Site | 30.83 |
| Stauffer Chemical Co. (Cold Creek Plant) | NPL Site | 46.77 |
| Stauffer Chemical Co. (LeMoyne Plant) | NPL Site | 32.34 |
| T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition Co. (Montgomery Plant) | NPL Site | 44.46 |
| Triana/Tennessee River | NPL Site | 61.42 |
Counties (68 total)
| County | Facilities |
|---|---|
| Jefferson | 71 |
| Mobile | 56 |
| Madison | 36 |
| Shelby | 21 |
| Morgan | 31 |
| Talladega | 24 |
| Montgomery | 28 |
| Baldwin | 16 |
| St. Clair | 18 |
| Tuscaloosa | 25 |
| Calhoun | 22 |
| Etowah | 11 |
| Walker | 14 |
| Marshall | 17 |
| Colbert | 16 |
| Houston | 11 |
| Cullman | 14 |
| Limestone | 18 |
| Washington | 7 |
| Lauderdale | 10 |
Showing top 20 counties by environmental activity. Alabama has 68 counties total.
Cities with Environmental Records
Birmingham
37 facilities · 48 water systems
Huntsville
30 facilities · 2 water systems
Montgomery
25 facilities · 4 water systems
Decatur
23 facilities · 2 water systems
Mobile
17 facilities · 1 water systems
Tuscaloosa
16 facilities · 3 water systems
Anniston
15 facilities · 1 water systems
Bessemer
13 facilities · 4 water systems
Theodore
12 facilities · 1 water systems
Cullman
10 facilities · 5 water systems
Florence
10 facilities · 5 water systems
Sylacauga
10 facilities · 3 water systems
Axis
10 facilities · 1 water systems
Pell City
9 facilities · 3 water systems
Athens
9 facilities · 2 water systems
Dothan
9 facilities · 2 water systems
Madison
9 facilities · 2 water systems
Jasper
8 facilities · 3 water systems
Muscle Shoals
8 facilities · 1 water systems
Gadsden
7 facilities · 5 water systems
Frequently Asked Questions
How many TRI facilities are in Alabama? ▼
Alabama has 661 facilities that report to the EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). These facilities have collectively reported 411.6M lbs in total toxic chemical releases. TRI data is self-reported annually by facilities that manufacture, process, or use listed toxic chemicals above threshold amounts.
Does Alabama have Superfund sites? ▼
Yes, Alabama has 16 sites on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). Superfund sites are contaminated locations identified for long-term cleanup under the EPA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
What does EPA SDWIS list for drinking water in Alabama? ▼
Alabama has 546 EPA-regulated water systems in the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) extract used here. 94 water systems have a health-based violation row (MCL exceedance) in this historical extract. A past registry row is not a current drinkability verdict. For current utility conditions, contact the local water utility or the Alabama drinking water program. Source: EPA SDWIS.
What environmental data is available for Alabama? ▼
PlainEnviro provides three categories of EPA environmental data for Alabama: Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data covering 661 industrial facilities, Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) data for 546 water systems, and Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) data for 16 contaminated sites.
How does Alabama compare to other states on EPA disclosure counts? ▼
Alabama has 661 TRI facilities with 411.6M lbs in total releases, 16 Superfund sites, and 538 water system violations on record. These are federal disclosure counts; they are not toxicity-weighted or population-adjusted risk scores. Source: EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL databases.
What is Alabama's environmental health score? ▼
PlainEnviro's composite environmental health score for Alabama is 67/100 (grade D). This score combines four percentile-benchmarked dimensions from EPA federal extracts: chemical release intensity per TRI facility, drinking-water health violation rate from SDWIS, Superfund site burden relative to industrial activity, and overall water violation rate. Scores are benchmarked against all 56 U.S. states and territories. When a dimension lacks data, its weight redistributes to the remaining dimensions so the score never deflates from missing inputs. This is a registry-count composite, not a clinical exposure or health-outcome assessment.
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About This Data
This page aggregates environmental data from three EPA programs for Alabama: the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) for industrial chemical releases, the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) for water quality, and the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) for hazardous waste cleanup sites.
PlainEnviro presents this data without advocacy framing. Numbers reflect reported data and may not capture all environmental activity. For specific health or environmental concerns, contact your state environmental agency.
What to do with Alabama's data
Use this state profile as a starting point, then drill into the specific dataset that matters to you.
- Check the 661 TRI facilities reporting in Alabama for the largest reported releases near a specific county. View facilities
- 94 water systems in the state have a recorded health-based violation, check if yours is one of them. Check water systems
- See how Alabama compares to other states on releases, water violations, and Superfund sites. State rankings
Reported data reflects what facilities and agencies disclose to the EPA; it is not a complete measure of environmental risk or a substitute for local guidance.
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State environmental figures are computed directly from EPA data. The methodology records the joins, definitions, and refresh cadence for each program.
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