Hinds County, MS
The federal environmental record for Hinds County (population 214,870): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
163
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hinds 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)
10 facilities in Hinds filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 430k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRECOAT METALS | JACKSON | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Certain glycol ethers | 338k lb |
| BLUESCOPE COATED PRODUCTS | BYRAM | n-Butyl alcohol, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 54k lb |
| DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. | JACKSON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen sulfide | 38k lb |
| DOUBLE G COATINGS CO LP | JACKSON | Zinc compounds, Manganese | 636 lb |
| TRI STATE BRICK & TILE CO INC | JACKSON | Hydrogen fluoride, Manganese compounds | 55 lb |
| APAC-MISSISSIPPI & PRECISION PACKAGING | JACKSON | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Lead compounds | 44 lb |
| CONTINENTAL TIRE - CLINTON | CLINTON | Zinc compounds, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 29 lb |
| DUNN UTILITY PRODUCTS - BYRAM | BYRAM | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead | 13 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - ELTON ROAD | JACKSON | Lead | 1 lb |
| MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORP. | JACKSON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 840 tank facilities in Hinds: 696 tanks in service and 1,804 closed. 483 fuel releases are on record, of which 163 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hinds 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 Hinds, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- GARY DRIVE -METHYL BROMIDE SITEJACKSON
- HINDS WOOD PRESERVING CO.LEARNED
- INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION CONTROLS (IPC)JACKSON
- JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITYJACKSON
- LAMAR LIFE BUILDING MERCURYJACKSON
- LIBERTY HILL BIDRIN RESPONSEJACKSON