Hardin County, IA
The federal environmental record for Hardin County (population 16,463): 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
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hardin 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 Hardin filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 480k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARGILL INC | IOWA FALLS | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 411k lb |
| PINE LAKE CORN PROCESSORS | STEAMBOAT ROCK | Acetaldehyde, Acrolein | 58k lb |
| POET BIOREFINING - IOWA FALLS LLC | IOWA FALLS | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 12k lb |
| FORTERRA CONCRETE PRODUCTS - IOWA FALLS | IOWA FALLS | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 150 tank facilities in Hardin: 60 tanks in service and 326 closed. 47 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hardin 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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