Sunflower County, MS
The federal environmental record for Sunflower County (population 24,468): 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
16
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Sunflower 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 Sunflower filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 8k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN PRODUCTS INC. | SUNFLOWER | Hydrogen sulfide | 5k lb |
| GRESHAM PETROLEUM CO | INDIANOLA | Naphthalene, n-Hexane | 2k lb |
| PRECISION DELTA CORP | RULEVILLE | Lead compounds | 136 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 159 tank facilities in Sunflower: 78 tanks in service and 343 closed. 33 fuel releases are on record, of which 16 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Sunflower 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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