Delaware County, IA
The federal environmental record for Delaware County (population 17,600): 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
6
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Delaware 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 Delaware filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 26k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIG RIVER UNITED ENERGY LLC | DYERSVILLE | n-Hexane, Acetaldehyde | 26k lb |
| STRYTEN MANCHESTER LLC | MANCHESTER | Lead And Lead Compounds, Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 350 lb |
| XL SPECIALIZED TRAILERS INC | MANCHESTER | Manganese, Lead | 98 lb |
| HENDERSON PRODUCTS INC | MANCHESTER | Manganese, Chromium | 77 lb |
| ROCKWELL COLLINS - MANCHESTER OPERATIONS | MANCHESTER | Lead | 8 lb |
| HUBBARD FEEDS INC | DYERSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 114 tank facilities in Delaware: 54 tanks in service and 243 closed. 41 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Delaware 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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