Facility detail

BASF CORP

111 W IRENE RD, ZACHARY, LA, 70791

Parent company: BASF CORP

Carcinogen — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Certain glycol ethers Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 1,4-Dioxane 2-Methoxyethanol Benzene Total (lbs)
2019 8,554 7,846 2,112 7 — 19,713
2018 29,131 18,761 3,285 6 — 54,784
2017 20,938 55,750 7,172 6 — 86,838
2016 21,994 64,473 8,886 6 — 98,274
2015 31,522 47,219 13,862 138 — 95,671
2014 25,306 39,333 4,701 70 — 72,634
2013 33,600 53,600 4,300 93 481 96,890
2012 52,260 52,000 10,510 42 711 116,372
2011 31,910 — 22,510 45 922 56,549
2010 11,240 — 5,380 23 832 18,445
2009 12,190 — 25,560 43 742 39,308
2008 15,800 — 15,560 8,810 812 42,025
2007 22,300 — 6,440 16,310 1,272 49,995
2006 26,100 — 4,540 12,300 1,062 44,711
2005 — — 4,760 14,006 1,192 23,901
2004 12,398 — 3,041 2,582 1,196 20,656
2003 6,724 — 4,868 56 529 14,296
2002 20,523 — 5,188 308 1,395 29,528
2001 8,747 — 2,992 4,671 807 19,547
2000 9,038 — 4,072 503 777 16,698
1999 9,504 — 3,336 436 1,373 16,810
1998 10,196 — 3,488 423 706 16,718
1997 12,968 — 13,831 211 1,594 31,641
1996 9,469 — 7,812 277 2,730 21,500
1995 12,442 — 10,425 1,125 2,702 37,286
1994 13,961 — 8,816 238 1,979 33,570
1993 15,267 — 9,888 233 2,474 37,466
1992 11,569 — 11,994 142 1,636 35,971
1991 8,666 — 11,993 569 1,541 31,510
1990 7,360 — 6,900 401 1,431 22,113
1989 7,650 — 8,700 305 1,981 27,809
1988 20,500 — 25,900 — — 49,534
1987 45,300 — — — — 67,250

▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.