Beauregard Parish, LA
Transparent derived index from EPA TRI / SDWIS / Superfund extracts: not an official EPA rating. Fixed caps: facilities ≤25 pts (50+ = max), log10 releases ≤25 pts, Superfund ≤25 pts (5/site), health-violation systems ≤15 pts (3/system), high-chemical facilities ≤10 pts. Bands: High ≥60, Moderate ≥30. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against other tracked counties rather than against these fixed caps.
Environmental data for Beauregard Parish in Louisiana · Population: 36,646
TRI sites such as Packaging Corp of America - Deridder Mill; Interfor U.S. Inc. - Dequincy Div; Ingevity South Carolina LLC; SDWIS systems such as BEAUREGARD WATER WORKS DIST #3; CITY OF DERIDDER WATER SYSTEM; BEAUREGARD DISTRICT NO 2 WARD NO 5; NPL sites such as American Creosote DeRidder anchor Beauregard Parish, LA's EPA extract. Derived burden score 43/100 (Moderate Risk) uses fixed national caps on density, log release volume, Superfund count, and health-flagged systems - not an official EPA rating.
Health-flagged SDWIS rows in Beauregard Parish include CITY OF DERIDDER WATER SYSTEM; TOWN OF MERRYVILLE WATER SYSTEM; CAMERON PARISH WW DISTRICT 9, while Packaging Corp of America - Deridder Mill leads reported TRI pounds among local Form R filers. No AQS county monitors report here.
Burden score 43/100 (Moderate Risk) is the only weighted composite on this page. The tables below list every TRI facility, SDWIS system, and Superfund site EPA has on record for Beauregard Parish -- not just the names called out above -- reproducing the disclosure history as filed, not a current-safety verdict. Extract current as of 2026-08-25.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Beauregard Parish, LA: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
-4.1%
3 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
-1.4%
955.6 thousand lb → 942.6 thousand lb, every facility that filed
Between the two reporting years, 2 facilities filed for the first time and 0 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Beauregard Parish, LA's total reported releases fell from 955.6 thousand lb in 2022 to 916.6 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Beauregard Parish, LA's land releases rose from 3.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 5.3 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Beauregard Parish, LA's off-site transfers fell from 2.9 thousand lb in 2022 to 1.7 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Beauregard Parish, LA's chemicals reported fell from 26 in 2022 to 23 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Water Systems (7)
| System | System pop (SDWIS) | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| BEAUREGARD WATER WORKS DIST #3 | 24,000 | 0 |
| CITY OF DERIDDER WATER SYSTEM | 14,400 | 1 |
| BEAUREGARD DISTRICT NO 2 WARD NO 5 | 6,613 | 0 |
| TOWN OF MERRYVILLE WATER SYSTEM | 1,107 | 3 |
| BEAUREGARD WATERWORKS DISTRICT NO. 6 | 993 | 0 |
| CAMERON PARISH WW DISTRICT 9 | 871 | 70 |
| BEAUREGARD WATER DISTRICT #5 | 672 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (5)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Packaging Corp of America - Deridder Mill | 4.7M lbs |
| 2 | Interfor U.S. Inc. - Dequincy Div | 51.1K lbs |
| 3 | Ingevity South Carolina LLC | 41.9K lbs |
| 4 | Ampacet Corp | 2.4K lbs |
| 5 | Csp Deridder LLC - Deridder Sawmill | 0 lbs |
Superfund Sites (1)
| Site Name | Status | HRS Score |
|---|---|---|
| American Creosote DeRidder | NPL Site | 50.00 |
Cities in Beauregard Parish (6)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.