Winston County, MS

The federal environmental record for Winston County (population 17,416): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

Site	City	Status	Listed
American Creosote Works, Inc.	Louisville	on the NPL	09/13/2001

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Winston 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)

4 facilities in Winston filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
KLOECKNER METALS CORP	LOUISVILLE	Nickel, Manganese	2k lb
TAYLOR MACHINE WORKS INC.	LOUISVILLE	Manganese, Nickel	203 lb
WINSTON PLYWOOD & VENEER LLC	LOUISVILLE	Lead	153 lb
WARING OIL CO	LOUISVILLE	-	0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 115 tank facilities in Winston: 82 tanks in service and 252 closed. 35 fuel releases are on record, of which 17 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Winston 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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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Winston, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

AMERICAN CREOSOTE WORKS INC (LOUISVILLE)LOUISVILLE