Oktibbeha County, MS
The federal environmental record for Oktibbeha County (population 51,203): 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
2
TRI facilities
15
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Oktibbeha 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)
2 facilities in Oktibbeha filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 31k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHWIRE CO | STARKVILLE | Zinc compounds, Decabromodiphenyl oxide | 31k lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - STARKVILLE | STARKVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead | 23 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 122 tank facilities in Oktibbeha: 117 tanks in service and 245 closed. 38 fuel releases are on record, of which 15 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Oktibbeha 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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