Monroe County, MS
The federal environmental record for Monroe County (population 33,609): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
5
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
20
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Monroe 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)
8 facilities in Monroe filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 10.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRONOX LLC | HAMILTON | Manganese compounds, Vanadium compounds | 10.1M lb |
| NAUTICSTAR LLC | AMORY | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 70k lb |
| WESTLAKE CHEMICALS & VINYLS LLC | ABERDEEN | Vinyl chloride, Methanol | 17k lb |
| STERLING SPECIALTY CHEMICALS US LLC | ABERDEEN | Acrylamide, Acrylic acid | 13k lb |
| TRUE TEMPER SPORTS INC | AMORY | Nickel compounds, Zinc compounds | 3k lb |
| ITT ENGINEERED VALVES LLC | AMORY | Chromium, Nickel | 47 lb |
| WESTLAKE COMPOUNDS LLC | PRAIRIE | Lead | 0 lb |
| LEGACY BOATS LLC DBA AVID BOATS | AMORY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 192 tank facilities in Monroe: 104 tanks in service and 396 closed. 49 fuel releases are on record, of which 20 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Monroe 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 Monroe, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CONOCO CHEMICALS CO CONOCO INCABERDEEN
- PRAIRIE METALS & CHEMICAL COABERDEEN
- TRUE TEMPER SPORTS, INC.AMORY
- UNIVERSAL BIOENERGYNETTLETON
- WOODSHAFTAMORY