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Tunica County, MS

The federal environmental record for Tunica County (population 9,234): 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

1

TRI facilities

4

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Tunica 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)

1 facilities in Tunica filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 6 lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
DREXEL CHEMICAL COTUNICAAtrazine, Simazine6 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 51 tank facilities in Tunica: 43 tanks in service and 79 closed. 12 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Tunica 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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