DeSoto County, MS
The federal environmental record for DeSoto County (population 193,247): 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
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
11
TRI facilities
59
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving DeSoto 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)
11 facilities in DeSoto filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 440k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARDAGH METAL BEVERAGE USA INC RE: OLIVE BRANCH FACILITY | OLIVE BRANCH | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 319k lb |
| US TVA SOUTHAVEN COMBINED CYCLE PLANT | SOUTHAVEN | Ammonia | 86k lb |
| RITE HITE PRODUCTS CORP | HORN LAKE | Toluene | 19k lb |
| PLASKOLITE SOUTH LLC | OLIVE BRANCH | Methyl methacrylate, Toluene | 9k lb |
| EVERCOMPOUNDS LLC | OLIVE BRANCH | Zinc compounds, Ethylene thiourea | 4k lb |
| NITEO PRODUCTS LLC. | HERNANDO | Methanol, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 3k lb |
| SXP SCHULZ XTRUDED PRODUCTS LP | HERNANDO | Nickel, Chromium | 266 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - HORN LAKE | HORN LAKE | Lead | 1 lb |
| J. STRICKLAND & CO. | OLIVE BRANCH | - | 0 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - NESBIT ROAD | NESBIT | Lead | 0 lb |
| HELMITIN INC | OLIVE BRANCH | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 264 tank facilities in DeSoto: 314 tanks in service and 428 closed. 98 fuel releases are on record, of which 59 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps DeSoto 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 DeSoto, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- MIDSOUTH STORAGE DRUMSOUTHAVEN
- TVA SOUTHAVEN COMBINED CYCLE PLANTSOUTHAVEN