Louisa County, IA
The federal environmental record for Louisa County (population 10,513): 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
3
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Louisa 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)
3 facilities in Louisa filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.9M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYSON FRESH MEATS INC-LOUISA COUNTY | COLUMBUS JUNCTION | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 1.6M lb |
| MIDAMERICAN ENERGY-LOUISA GENERATING STATION | MUSCATINE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Vanadium compounds | 266k lb |
| TRIOAK FOODS LLC - FEED MILL | OAKVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 47 tank facilities in Louisa: 24 tanks in service and 106 closed. 26 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Louisa 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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