Kossuth County, IA
The federal environmental record for Kossuth County (population 14,396): 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
5
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Kossuth 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)
5 facilities in Kossuth filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 57k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALERO LAKOTA PLANT | LAKOTA | Acetaldehyde, Formic acid | 29k lb |
| BRANDFX LLC | SWEA CITY | Styrene | 17k lb |
| AG PROCESSING INC.-ALGONA METHYL ESTER | ALGONA | Methanol | 11k lb |
| MURPHY BROWN LLC ALGONA FEED MILL | ALGONA | Zinc (fume or dust), Manganese | 19 lb |
| SNAP-ON TOOLS MANUFACTURING CO | ALGONA | Lead | 13 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 112 tank facilities in Kossuth: 55 tanks in service and 248 closed. 49 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Kossuth 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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