Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) at Basf Corp Attapulgus Ops have risen 61% since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Basf Corp Attapulgus Ops
Total reported releases 4.9M lb held roughly steady year over year (-2%). Total releases concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
141 ENGELHARD RD, Attapulgus, Georgia · 327992 · Nonmetallic Mineral Product · operated by Basf CORP
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have fallen 20% since 2010.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations are up 61% since 2010.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 960. Why we surface this →
50.9%
Low-income
74.0%
People of color
4.9%
Under age 5
11.8%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.