Mississippi County, AR
The federal environmental record for Mississippi County (population 38,663): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
25
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Mississippi reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
25 facilities in Mississippi filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISKASE COS INC | OSCEOLA | Carbon disulfide, Hydrogen sulfide | 1.9M lb |
| PLUM POINT ENERGY STATION | OSCEOLA | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Copper compounds | 1.2M lb |
| NUCOR STEEL-ARKANSAS | BLYTHEVILLE | Zinc compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 1.1M lb |
| NUCOR-YAMATO STEEL CO | BLYTHEVILLE | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 424k lb |
| BIG RIVER STEEL LLC | OSCEOLA | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Zinc compounds | 299k lb |
| NUCOR COATINGS CORP | BLYTHEVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 76k lb |
| AECI DELL POWER PLANT | DELL | Ammonia, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 29k lb |
| NIBCO INC BLYTHEVILLE DIV | BLYTHEVILLE | Xylene (mixed isomers), Copper | 14k lb |
| REMURIATE ARKANSAS LLC | OSCEOLA | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Chlorine | 4k lb |
| ACTAGRO LLC | OSCEOLA | Zinc compounds, Ammonia | 3k lb |
| SKYLINE STEEL LLC-ARMOREL | ARMOREL | Manganese, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 2k lb |
| EXPLORATORY VENTURES LLC. | OSCEOLA | Zinc compounds, Aluminum (fume or dust) | 703 lb |
| ROEHM AMERICA LLC | OSCEOLA | Methyl acrylate, Methyl methacrylate | 287 lb |
| MAVERICK TUBE CORP | BLYTHEVILLE | Manganese, Nickel | 99 lb |
| ATLAS TUBE INC. - BLYTHEVILLE PLANT | BLYTHEVILLE | Manganese | 46 lb |
| SMS TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC | OSCEOLA | Copper | 19 lb |
| GOWAN MILLING BLYTHEVILLE LLC | BLYTHEVILLE | Thiophanate-methyl, Metribuzin | 15 lb |
| DELTA ASPHALT | LUXORA | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 9 lb |
| RAZORBACK CONCRETE - BRS PORTABLE SITE | OSCEOLA | - | 0 lb |
| NEAR READY MIX - OSCEOLA SITE | OSCEOLA | - | 0 lb |
| PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES USA LLC | BLYTHEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| ARKANSAS STEEL PROCESSING | OSCEOLA | - | 0 lb |
| STEEL TECHNOLOGIES LLC | BLYTHEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| LEXICON INC. | BLYTHEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| MID-SOUTH SALES LLC - BLYTHEVILLE | BLYTHEVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 258 tank facilities in Mississippi: 110 tanks in service and 539 closed. 24 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Mississippi as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Mississippi, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ARKANSAS WASTE-TO-ENERGYOSCEOLA
- EAKER AFBBLYTHEVILLE
- SR - ARKANSASWILSON