Hancock County, IA
The federal environmental record for Hancock County (population 10,615): 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
7
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hancock 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)
7 facilities in Hancock filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 87k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MG WALDBAUM CO | BRITT | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 58k lb |
| CDI LLC | FOREST CITY | Xylene (mixed isomers), Certain glycol ethers | 11k lb |
| WINNEBAGO INDUSTRIES INC. | FOREST CITY | Styrene | 10k lb |
| ZINPRO CORP | GARNER | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 8k lb |
| IOWA MOLD TOOLING CO | GARNER | Manganese | 89 lb |
| STELLAR INDUSTRIES INC - GARNER PLANT | GARNER | Manganese, Lead | 45 lb |
| STELLAR INDUSTRIES INC - KANAWHA PLANT | KANAWHA | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 76 tank facilities in Hancock: 39 tanks in service and 177 closed. 40 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hancock 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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