Beauregard Parish, LA
The federal environmental record for Beauregard Parish (population 36,827): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
17
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Creosote DeRidder | DeRidder | on the NPL | 01/18/2018 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Beauregard 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)
4 facilities in Beauregard filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.1M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA - DERIDDER MILL | DERIDDER | Methanol, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 1.0M lb |
| CSP DERIDDER LLC - DERIDDER SAWMILL | DERIDDER | Methanol, Lead And Lead Compounds | 42k lb |
| INTERFOR U.S. INC. - DEQUINCY DIV | DEQUINCY | Methanol, Lead | 28k lb |
| INGEVITY SOUTH CAROLINA LLC | DERIDDER | Toluene, Zinc compounds | 2k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 124 tank facilities in Beauregard: 69 tanks in service and 295 closed. 44 fuel releases are on record, of which 17 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Beauregard 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 Beauregard, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMERICAN CREOSOTE DERIDDERDERIDDER
- U.S. ARMY, FORT POLKALEXANDRIA