Calcasieu Parish, LA
The federal environmental record for Calcasieu Parish (population 203,761): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
14
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
31
TRI facilities
41
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf State Utilities-North Ryan Street | Lake Charles | proposed | - |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Calcasieu 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)
31 facilities in Calcasieu filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 17.0M lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUISIANA PIGMENT CO LP | WESTLAKE | Manganese compounds, Vanadium compounds | 5.2M lb |
| CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT - LA KE CHARLES FACILITY | SULPHUR | Aluminum oxide (fibrous forms), Copper And Copper Compounds | 3.9M lb |
| PHILLIPS 66 LAKE CHARLES REFINERY | WESTLAKE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 1.3M lb |
| CITGO PETROLEUM CORP | SULPHUR | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), n-Hexane | 1.2M lb |
| W R GRACE & CO-CONN GRACE | SULPHUR | Ammonia, Molybdenum trioxide | 1.0M lb |
| LOUISIANA INTEGRATED POLYETHYLENE JV LLC | WESTLAKE | Ethylene, Ammonia | 698k lb |
| SASOL CHEMICALS (USA) LLC-LAKE CHARLES CHEMICAL COMPLEX | WESTLAKE | Ethylene, n-Hexane | 593k lb |
| WESTLAKE US 2 LLC | WESTLAKE | Copper compounds, Ammonia | 529k lb |
| EQUISTAR CHEMICALS LP - LAKE CHARLES POLYMERS | WESTLAKE | Propylene, Ethylene | 509k lb |
| WESTLAKE POLYMERS LLC | SULPHUR | Ethylene, Vinyl acetate | 450k lb |
| ROY S. NELSON PLANT | WESTLAKE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 426k lb |
| CARBOLINE GLOBAL INC. | LAKE CHARLES | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 299k lb |
| WESTLAKE PETROCHEMICALS ETHYLENE | SULPHUR | Ethylene, Benzene | 276k lb |
| RAIN CII CARBON LLC LAKE CHARLES CALCINING PLANT (LCCP) | SULPHUR | Vanadium compounds, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 139k lb |
| INDORAMA VENTURES OLEFINS LLC | WESTLAKE | Ethylene, Benzene | 119k lb |
| LACC LLC US/LOTTE CHEMICAL LOUISIANA LLC | WESTLAKE | Ethylene, Ethylene glycol | 84k lb |
| WESTLAKE CHEMICALS & VINYLS LLC | WESTLAKE | Ethylene, 1,2-Dichloroethane | 76k lb |
| BOARDWALK LOUISIANA MIDSTREAM LLC | SULPHUR | Ethylene | 55k lb |
| CALCASIEU REFINING CO | LAKE CHARLES | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 28k lb |
| FIRESTONE POLYMERS LLC | SULPHUR | n-Hexane, Styrene | 24k lb |
| WESTLAKE STYRENE LLC - STYRENE MARINE TERMINAL | SULPHUR | Styrene, Benzene | 15k lb |
| BIO-LAB INC | WESTLAKE | Chlorine | 14k lb |
| AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC | WESTLAKE | Ethylene, Methanol | 5k lb |
| SUN COAST RESOURCES LLC | SULPHUR | Zinc compounds, Toluene | 2k lb |
| TARGA LOUISIANA FIELD SERVICES - GILLIS GAS PLANT | LAKE CHARLES | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 1k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 756 tank facilities in Calcasieu: 503 tanks in service and 1,529 closed. 295 fuel releases are on record, of which 41 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Calcasieu 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 Calcasieu, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- 9TH STREET MERCURYLAKE CHARLES
- BAYOU D'INDESULPHUR
- BAYOU VERDINELAKE CHARLES
- CALCASIEU ESTUARYLAKE CHARLES
- CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATIONLAKE CHARLES
- DEQUINCY MERCURY RELEASEDEQUINCY
- ENTERGY GULF ST LAKE CHARLES SVC CTRLAKE CHARLES
- LAKE CHARLES NRGLAKE CHARLES
- LOWER ESTUARYLAKE CHARLES
- MOSSVILLESULPHUR
- NORTHROP GRUMMAN FCULAKE CHARLES
- REID STREET DRUMLAKE CHARLES
- UPPER ESTUARYLAKE CHARLES
- USARC CARL J SHELTERLAKE CHARLES