Butler County, IA
The federal environmental record for Butler County (population 14,172): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Butler 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)
5 facilities in Butler filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 426k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELL ROCK SOY PROCESSING LLC | SHELL ROCK | n-Hexane | 297k lb |
| POET BIOREFINING - SHELL ROCK LLC | SHELL ROCK | Acetaldehyde, Methanol | 103k lb |
| ZINPRO CORP | SHELL ROCK | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 25k lb |
| UNVERFERTH MANUFACTURING CO INC BRENT DIV | SHELL ROCK | Manganese, Copper | 819 lb |
| FELDMEIER EQUIPMENT INC | SHELL ROCK | Chromium, Nickel | 226 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 99 tank facilities in Butler: 31 tanks in service and 220 closed. 38 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Butler 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.
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