Lauderdale County, MS
The federal environmental record for Lauderdale County (population 70,527): 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
10
TRI facilities
62
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 71k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CAST PRODUCTS INC | MERIDIAN | Manganese, Nickel | 32k lb |
| STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES INC PLANT 2 | MERIDIAN | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 23k lb |
| CF RAIL SERVICES | MERIDIAN | Xylene (mixed isomers) | 12k lb |
| NUPLA - SOUTH | MERIDIAN | Styrene | 2k lb |
| MGC TERMINAL LLC | MERIDIAN | Xylene (mixed isomers), 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 589 lb |
| FAIRBANKS SCALES INC | MERIDIAN | Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 483 lb |
| TOWER AUTOMOTIVE | MERIDIAN | Manganese, Nickel | 354 lb |
| MID SOUTH LUMBER INC. | MERIDIAN | Lead | 13 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - MERIDIAN PLANT | MERIDIAN | Lead | 1 lb |
| ATLAS ROOFING CORP | MERIDIAN | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 462 tank facilities in Lauderdale: 305 tanks in service and 1,031 closed. 200 fuel releases are on record, of which 62 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- KERR-MCGEE CHEMICAL CORP-MERIDIANMERIDIAN
- USN AIR STATION MERIDIANMERIDIAN