East Baton Rouge Parish, LA
The federal environmental record for East Baton Rouge Parish (population 448,467): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
4
Superfund NPL sites
19
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
27
TRI facilities
16
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capitol Lakes | Baton Rouge | on the NPL | 09/07/2023 |
| Devil's Swamp Lake | Scotlandville | proposed | - |
| Exide Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge | on the NPL | 03/07/2024 |
| Petro-Processors of Louisiana, Inc. | Scotlandville | on the NPL | 09/21/1984 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving East Baton Rouge 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)
27 facilities in East Baton Rouge filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.5M lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXXONMOBIL BATON ROUGE CHEMICAL PLANT (PART) | BATON ROUGE | n-Hexane, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 1.7M lb |
| EXXONMOBIL BATON ROUGE REFINERY (PART) | BATON ROUGE | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 1.6M lb |
| HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC-BATON ROUGE PLANT | BATON ROUGE | Zinc compounds, Tetrachloroethylene | 359k lb |
| FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP LOUISIANA | BATON ROUGE | Chlorine, 1,2-Dichloroethane | 203k lb |
| EXXON MOBIL CORP - BATON ROUGE PLASTICS PLANT | BATON ROUGE | Ethylene, Vinyl acetate | 165k lb |
| OXBOW CALCINING LLC | BATON ROUGE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Vanadium compounds | 74k lb |
| EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL CO BATON ROUGE POLYOLEFINS PLANT | BATON ROUGE | Propylene, Ethylene | 65k lb |
| SOUTH ATLANTIC GALVANIZING | ZACHARY | Zinc compounds, Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 62k lb |
| ALBEMARLE CORP | BATON ROUGE | Tetrabromobisphenol A, Cyclohexane | 39k lb |
| DELTECH MONOMERS OPCO LLC | BATON ROUGE | Toluene, Benzene | 36k lb |
| ECO-SERVICES OPERATIONS | BATON ROUGE | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen sulfide | 29k lb |
| AIR PRODUCTS-BATON ROUGE SMR | BATON ROUGE | Ammonia, Methanol | 21k lb |
| SOLVAY USA LLC | BATON ROUGE | Methyl isobutyl ketone, Phenol | 19k lb |
| CLEAN HARBORS BATON ROUGE LLC | BATON ROUGE | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Nitric acid | 11k lb |
| W. R. GRACE & CO - CONN | BATON ROUGE | Toluene, n-Hexane | 10k lb |
| UOP LLC BATON ROUGE PLANT | BATON ROUGE | Copper And Copper Compounds | 6k lb |
| EXXON MOBIL CORP - BATON ROUGE RESIN FINISHING PLANT | BATON ROUGE | n-Hexane, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 6k lb |
| PORT HUDSON TERMINAL | ZACHARY | n-Hexane, Benzene | 2k lb |
| EXXONMOBIL BATON ROUGE CHEMICAL PLANT NORTH | BATON ROUGE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 1k lb |
| FUTURE PIPE INDUSTRIES | BATON ROUGE | Styrene | 491 lb |
| BARRIERE CONSTRUCTION CO LLC - BATON ROUGE ASPHALT PLA | BATON ROUGE | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 322 lb |
| GEORGIA-PACIFIC PORT HUDSON LLC | ZACHARY | 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol | 29 lb |
| SUN COAST RESOURCES LLC | BATON ROUGE | - | 0 lb |
| CMC STEEL FABRICATORS INC DBA CMC CAPITOL STEEL | BATON ROUGE | - | 0 lb |
| HOLCIM-SOR INC. - PECUE | BATON ROUGE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,210 tank facilities in East Baton Rouge: 714 tanks in service and 2,670 closed. 536 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps East Baton Rouge 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 East Baton Rouge, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ADVENTIST ACADEMY MERCURY SPILLBATON ROUGE
- ALLIED CHEM CORP FIBERS & PLASTICS COBATON ROUGE
- BATON ROUGE DEPOTBATON ROUGE
- BATON ROUGE MERCURYBATON ROUGE
- BAYOU BATON ROUGESCOTLANDVILLE
- CAPITOL LAKESBATON ROUGE
- CLEARWATER FLUIDS RECYCLING INC.BATON ROUGE
- DELTA TANNERYBATON ROUGE
- DEVIL'S LAKEBATON ROUGE
- DEVIL'S SWAMP LAKESCOTLANDVILLE
- EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES INC - BATON ROUGE RECYCLING CENTERBATON ROUGE
- GILMAR MARINE SERVICESBATON ROUGE
- JARVIS PETITIONBATON ROUGE
- LOUISIANA OIL RECYCLE & REUSEBATON ROUGE
- MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL MERCURY SPILLBATON ROUGE
- NORTH 10TH STREET DRUMSBATON ROUGE
- PETRO-PROCESSORS SUPERFUND SITE - BROOKLAWN OUSCOTLANDVILLE
- TED DUNHAM DRUMSBATON ROUGE
- THE ESSEN INCIDENTBATON ROUGE