St. James Parish, LA
The federal environmental record for St. James Parish (population 19,191): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
3
PFAS-detecting water systems
12
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving St. James with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| GRAMERCY WATERWORKS LA1093002 | PFBA: 6.8 ng/L | detected |
| LUTCHER WATERWORKS LA1093003 | PFBA: 5.6 ng/L | detected |
| ST JAMES WATER DISTRICT 2 LA1093005 | PFBA: 5.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
12 facilities in St. James filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.0M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATLANTIC ALUMINA GRAMERCY OPERATIONS | GRAMERCY | Zinc compounds, Lead compounds | 773k lb |
| MOSAIC PHOSPHATES CO FAUSTINA PLANT | SAINT JAMES | Ammonia, Methanol | 459k lb |
| MOSAIC FERTILIZER LLC UNCLE SAM PLANT | UNCLE SAM | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead And Lead Compounds | 308k lb |
| KOCH METHANOL ST. JAMES LLC | SAINT JAMES | Ammonia, Methanol | 219k lb |
| AMERICAS STYRENICS LLC | SAINT JAMES | Styrene, Ethylbenzene | 133k lb |
| NUCOR STEEL LOUISIANA LLC | CONVENT | Ammonia, Lead And Lead Compounds | 32k lb |
| OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL HOLDING CORP | CONVENT | 1,2-Dichloroethane, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 14k lb |
| CONVENT REFINERY | CONVENT | Xylene (mixed isomers), Ethylbenzene | 8k lb |
| RAIN CII CARBON LLC | GRAMERCY | Vanadium compounds, Nickel compounds | 7k lb |
| AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC. - CONVENT SMR | CONVENT | Methanol | 5k lb |
| VALERO DONALDSONVILLE ASPHALT TERMINAL | SAINT JAMES | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 64 lb |
| MILLENNIUM GALVANIZING LLC | CONVENT | Zinc (fume or dust), Zinc compounds | 16 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 108 tank facilities in St. James: 73 tanks in service and 210 closed. 19 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps St. James 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 St. James, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CN-DERAILMENT-PAULINAPAULINA
- MOSAIC FERTILIZERUNCLE SAM