Tangipahoa Parish, LA
The federal environmental record for Tangipahoa Parish (population 138,064): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
32
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delatte Metals | Ponchatoula | deleted | 01/19/1999 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Tangipahoa 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)
7 facilities in Tangipahoa filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 758k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERSON FARMS LLC | HAMMOND | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen sulfide | 754k lb |
| SMITTY'S SUPPLY INC | ROSELAND | Methanol, Certain glycol ethers | 3k lb |
| TANNER INDUSTRIES INC. | NATALBANY | Ammonia | 1k lb |
| KENTWOOD BRICK & TILE LLC | KENTWOOD | Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 0 lb |
| LEI INC. | AMITE | - | 0 lb |
| PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - ARCOLA | ROSELAND | - | 0 lb |
| EAST SIDE JERSEY DAIRY INC. DBA BROWN'S DAIRY | HAMMOND | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 396 tank facilities in Tangipahoa: 281 tanks in service and 859 closed. 121 fuel releases are on record, of which 32 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Tangipahoa 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 Tangipahoa, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- DELATTE METALSPONCHATOULA
- HAMMOND PRINCIPAL SANITARY LANDFILLHAMMOND
- PONCHATOULA BATTERY COMPANYPONCHATOULA