Morgan County, CO
The federal environmental record for Morgan County (population 29,524): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Morgan 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)
6 facilities in Morgan filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF COLORADO PAWNEE STATION | BRUSH | Barium And Barium Compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 745k lb |
| CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORP | FORT MORGAN | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 362k lb |
| WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE | FORT MORGAN | Ammonia, Nitric acid | 54k lb |
| JACKSON LAKE PLANT | WELDONA | Methanol | 11k lb |
| LEPRINO FOODS CO | FORT MORGAN | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 1k lb |
| DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA INC | FORT MORGAN | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 983 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 137 tank facilities in Morgan: 68 tanks in service and 304 closed. 101 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Morgan as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 4 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Morgan, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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