Chickasaw County, IA
The federal environmental record for Chickasaw County (population 11,658): 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
4
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Chickasaw 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 Chickasaw filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 31k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOMELAND ENERGY SOLUTIONS LLC | LAWLER | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 31k lb |
| TRIMARK CORP | NEW HAMPTON | Zinc (fume or dust) | 204 lb |
| ATEK METAL TECHNOLOGIES | NEW HAMPTON | Nickel, Copper | 3 lb |
| AFINITAS | NEW HAMPTON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 75 tank facilities in Chickasaw: 36 tanks in service and 213 closed. 30 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Chickasaw 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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