Lowndes County, MS
The federal environmental record for Lowndes County (population 57,283): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
13
TRI facilities
36
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp - Columbus | Columbus | on the NPL | 09/16/2011 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lowndes 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)
13 facilities in Lowndes filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLUMBUS CELLULOSE FIBERS | COLUMBUS | Methanol, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 1.8M lb |
| U.S. TVA CALEDONIA COMBINED CYCLE PLANT | STEENS | Ammonia | 200k lb |
| STEEL DYNAMICS INC FLAT ROLL GROUP COLUMBUS DIV | COLUMBUS | Lithium carbonate, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 118k lb |
| NOURYON PULP & PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS LLC | COLUMBUS | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Chlorine | 64k lb |
| COLUMBUS BRICK CO | COLUMBUS | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead | 13k lb |
| COLUMBUS ROLL SHOP | COLUMBUS | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 13k lb |
| PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES USA LLC | COLUMBUS | Nickel compounds | 3k lb |
| VALMET INC SERVICE CENTER | COLUMBUS | Chromium, Nickel | 2k lb |
| GOLDEN TRIANGLE MILL SERVICE | COLUMBUS | Manganese compounds, Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 455 lb |
| ABB MOTORS & MECHANICAL INC. | COLUMBUS | Nickel, Copper | 81 lb |
| MISSISSIPPI PRECISION CAST PARTS | COLUMBUS | - | 0 lb |
| DELTA INDUSTRIES INC - PLANT 41 | COLUMBUS | Lead | 0 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - COLUMBUS SOUTH | COLUMBUS | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 231 tank facilities in Lowndes: 187 tanks in service and 496 closed. 90 fuel releases are on record, of which 36 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lowndes as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 4 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 Lowndes, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMERICAN BOSCH ELECTRICAL PRODUCTSCOLUMBUS
- COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASECOLUMBUS AFB
- HOOKER CHEMICAL CORPCOLUMBUS
- KERR-MCGEE CHEMICAL CORP - COLUMBUSCOLUMBUS
- NOURYON PULP AND PERFORMANCE CHEMICALSCOLUMBUS
- WATERWORKS CREOSOTE SPILLCOLUMBUS