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Pike County, MS

The federal environmental record for Pike County (population 39,394): 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

3

TRI facilities

35

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Pike 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)

3 facilities in Pike filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.1M lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
SANDERSON FARMS LLCSUMMITNitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Hydrogen sulfide1.1M lb
WEYERHAEUSER NR CO MCCOMB WOOD PRODUCTSMAGNOLIAMethanol39k lb
SANDERSON FARMS LLCFERNWOOD-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 169 tank facilities in Pike: 168 tanks in service and 362 closed. 75 fuel releases are on record, of which 35 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Pike 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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