Minidoka County, ID
The federal environmental record for Minidoka County (population 22,480): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Minidoka 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)
4 facilities in Minidoka filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMALGAMATED SUGAR CO | PAUL | Ammonia, Methanol | 2.3M lb |
| GOSSNER FOODS - MAGIC VALLEY INC. | HEYBURN | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 355 lb |
| PERFORMIX NUTRITION SYSTEMS LLC | RUPERT | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 297 lb |
| PILOT THOMAS LOGISTICS - BURLEY EAST | BURLEY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 110 tank facilities in Minidoka: 70 tanks in service and 255 closed. 34 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Minidoka as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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 Minidoka, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- MINIDOKA CNTY LANDFILLPAUL
- MINIDOKA DAM AND POWER PLANT USBORRUPERT
- US DOI BLM GERMAN LAKEMINIDOKA