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American Creosote Works Inc (Louisville)

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: 1,2-Dihydroacenaphthylene.

Railroad Ave, Louisville, Mississippi · ZIP 39339 · EPA ID MSD004006995

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CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
1,2-DihydroacenaphthyleneGroundwater1
1,2-DihydroacenaphthyleneSoil1
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxin (Tcdd) Toxicity Equivalents (Teq)Soil1
2,4-DimethylphenolGroundwater1
2,4-DimethylphenolSoil1
2-MethylnaphthaleneGroundwater1
2-MethylnaphthaleneSoil1
9H-CarbazoleGroundwater1
9H-CarbazoleSoil1
9H-FluoreneGroundwater1
9H-FluoreneSoil1
BenzeneHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Long-term inhalation causes leukemia and bone-marrow disorders. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
BenzeneHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Long-term inhalation causes leukemia and bone-marrow disorders. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
Benzo[A]PyreneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; the prototypical PAH used to benchmark PAH-mixture cancer risk. EPA MCL 0.2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
Benzo[A]Pyrene Equivalents (Bapeq)Health riskPAH; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; the prototypical PAH used to benchmark PAH-mixture cancer risk. EPA MCL 0.2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
Bis(2-Ethylhexyl)PhthalateGroundwater1
Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Cpah)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Cpah)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
ChromiumHealth riskHexavalent chromium (Cr-VI) is an IARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation, causing lung cancer; trivalent chromium is far less toxic. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
DibenzofuranGroundwater1
DibenzofuranSoil1
FluorantheneGroundwater1
FluorantheneSoil1
IronGroundwater1
IronSoil1
ManganeseHealth riskExcess inhalation can cause manganism, a Parkinson-like neurological disorder. (ATSDR)Groundwater1
ManganeseHealth riskExcess inhalation can cause manganism, a Parkinson-like neurological disorder. (ATSDR)Soil1
NaphthaleneHealth riskIARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; causes hemolytic anemia, especially in infants. (IARC)Groundwater1
NaphthaleneHealth riskIARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; causes hemolytic anemia, especially in infants. (IARC)Soil1
NickelHealth riskNickel compounds are IARC Group 1 carcinogens; inhalation exposure raises lung and nasal cancer risk. (IARC)Groundwater1

Showing the top 30 pairs by SEMS citation count. 5 additional (contaminant, pathway) pairs are recorded for this site.

Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 8 systems below draw on groundwater (or mixed sources) and serve communities whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Distance is to the served-city centroid — SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations, so this is a proximity screen, not a wellhead-impact assessment.

Water systemServesDistancePopulation servedSourceStatus
Bond Water Association #1 MixedLouisville0.8 mi1,299GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Calvary Water Association MixedLouisville0.8 mi900GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
City Of Louisville MunicipalLouisville0.8 mi7,545GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
City Of Louisville - Northeast MunicipalLouisville0.8 mi780GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Pugh's Mill Water Association MixedLouisville0.8 mi924GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Highpoint Water Association #1 MixedLouisville0.8 mi1,940GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Ellison Ridge Water Assn MixedLouisville0.8 mi1,287GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Nanih-Waiya Water Association MixedLouisville0.8 mi1,127GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Within 1 mile of this site (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 793. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
93.4%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
46.5%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
4.4%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
26.5%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 1-mile buffer around this site (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.