St. Charles Parish, LA

Moderate Risk (47/100)

A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against every other tracked county rather than against fixed national thresholds.

Environmental data for St. Charles Parish in Louisiana · Population: 51,863

St. Charles Parish, LA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 24 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 1 Safe Drinking Water Act system, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 47/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.

Industrial disclosures inside the county total 101.7M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 0 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.

All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.

Population
51,863
TRI Facilities
24
Water Systems
1
Superfund Sites
0
Total Releases
101.7M lbs

Water Systems (1)

System Population Violations
ST CHARLES PARISH DEPT OF WATERWORKS 52,879 0

TRI Facilities (24)

# Facility Total Releases
1 Bayer Cropscience LP 81.9M lbs
2 Shell Norco Chemical Plant 3.6M lbs
3 Valero Refining - New Orleans LLC 3.4M lbs
4 St Charles Operations (taft/star) Union Carbide Corp 3.2M lbs
5 Galata Chemicals LLC - Galata Taft Facility 2.9M lbs
6 Occidental Chemical Corp Luling 2.5M lbs
7 Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables LLC 2.5M lbs
8 Linde Gas & Equipment 889.0K lbs
9 Rain Cii Carbon LLC 264.2K lbs
10 Linde St Charles Facility 126.4K lbs
11 Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site 96.1K lbs
12 Hexion Luling Facility 74.0K lbs
13 Diamond Green Diesel LLC 71.4K lbs
14 Koch Fertilizer LLC - Taft Terminal 55.0K lbs
15 Shac Catalyst Plant 15.6K lbs
16 Air Products & Chemicals Inc Luling Smr 15.3K lbs
17 Arkema Coating Resins 13.4K lbs
18 Enterprise Gas Proc Llc/norco Fractionator 12.9K lbs
19 Valero Partners la Llc- Terminal 12.8K lbs
20 Discovery Producer Services: Paradis Fractionator 8.9K lbs
21 Barriere Construction Co LLC - Boutte Asphalt Plant 3.1K lbs
22 Occidental Chemical Corp 2.2K lbs
23 Air Products & Chemcials Inc Norco Smr 284 lbs
24 Waterford 1-3 Complex 0 lbs

Cities in St. Charles Parish (8)

Boutte
Pop: -
1 facilities · 0 water
Destrehan
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1 facilities · 0 water
Norco
Pop: -
10 facilities · 0 water
Hahnville
Pop: -
5 facilities · 0 water
Taft
Pop: -
1 facilities · 0 water
Killona
Pop: -
1 facilities · 0 water
Luling
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4 facilities · 1 water
Paradis
Pop: -
1 facilities · 0 water

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the environmental risk level in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana?
St. Charles Parish, LA has an environmental risk score of 47/100 (Moderate Risk), based on 24 TRI facilities, 0 Superfund sites, and 1 water systems on record. No water systems have current health-based violations. Source: EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL.
Are there Superfund sites in St. Charles Parish?
No Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) sites are currently registered in St. Charles Parish, LA in the EPA database.
How many toxic release facilities are in St. Charles Parish?
St. Charles Parish, LA has 24 TRI-reporting facilities on record with the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, with a combined total of 101.7M lbs in reported toxic releases. TRI facilities self-report annual chemical release data to the EPA.
What is the air quality in St. Charles Parish?
Air quality monitoring data (EPA AQS) is not available for St. Charles Parish, LA. This may indicate no EPA monitoring stations are located in the county. For regional air quality data, see the state environmental profile or visit EPA's AirNow.gov.
Is the drinking water safe in St. Charles Parish?
St. Charles Parish, LA has 1 EPA-regulated water system. No health-based violations are currently on record. For current water quality, contact your local water utility. Source: EPA SDWIS.
What environmental agencies cover St. Charles Parish?
Environmental compliance in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana is overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the federal level and the Louisiana state environmental agency. Facilities report to the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, water systems are regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and contaminated sites are managed under the Superfund program. Contact your state environmental agency for local concerns.

What does this county environmental profile show?

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.

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Data sourced from U.S. EPA environmental datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainEnviro Editorial