Jones County, MS
The federal environmental record for Jones County (population 66,250): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
34
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Jones 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)
15 facilities in Jones filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHERN HENS INC. | MOSELLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen sulfide | 1.0M lb |
| MASONITE CORP | LAUREL | Styrene, Zinc compounds | 197k lb |
| HOWARD INDUSTRIES INC. | LAUREL | Xylene (mixed isomers), Manganese compounds | 18k lb |
| SANDERSON FARMS INC | LAUREL | Ammonia | 11k lb |
| HUNT SOUTHLAND REFINING CO-SANDERSVILLE | SANDERSVILLE | Hydrogen sulfide, n-Hexane | 11k lb |
| AMICK FARMS LLC - LAUREL PROCESSING PLANT | LAUREL | Peracetic acid | 9k lb |
| HOWARD INDUSTRIES INC | ELLISVILLE | Certain glycol ethers | 3k lb |
| ESSMUELLER CO | LAUREL | Manganese, Chromium | 492 lb |
| ALLIED UNIVERSAL CORP | ELLISVILLE | Chlorine | 10 lb |
| HOWARD INDUSTRIES INC | SANDERSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| AMICK FARMS LLC - LAUREL FEED MILL | LAUREL | - | 0 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - LAUREL | ELLISVILLE | Lead | 0 lb |
| SANDERSON FARMS LLC | LAUREL | - | 0 lb |
| THERMO-KOOL | LAUREL | - | 0 lb |
| ROBINE & WELCH MACHINE & TOOL CO INC | LAUREL | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 314 tank facilities in Jones: 198 tanks in service and 682 closed. 92 fuel releases are on record, of which 34 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Jones 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.
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