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Fayette County, IA

The federal environmental record for Fayette County (population 19,210): 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

2

TRI facilities

10

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Fayette 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)

2 facilities in Fayette filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 6k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
ASHLEY INDUSTRIAL MOLDINGOELWEINStyrene, Zinc compounds6k lb
CAPTIVEAIRE SYSTEMS INCWEST UNION-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 133 tank facilities in Fayette: 59 tanks in service and 277 closed. 53 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Fayette 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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