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Humboldt County, IA

The federal environmental record for Humboldt County (population 9,500): 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

1

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Humboldt 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 Humboldt filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 17k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
PRECISION TANK & EQUIPMENT CO.HUMBOLDTStyrene17k lb
FORTERRA CONCRETE PRODUCTS - HUMBOLDTHUMBOLDTLead0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 78 tank facilities in Humboldt: 27 tanks in service and 191 closed. 27 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Humboldt 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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