Monroe County, IA
The federal environmental record for Monroe County (population 7,504): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Monroe with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| ALBIA MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS IA6803010 | PFBA: 5.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
6 facilities in Monroe filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJINOMOTO HEALTH & NUTRITION N.A. INC. | EDDYVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 852k lb |
| CARGILL CORN MILLING | EDDYVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), n-Hexane | 773k lb |
| WACKER CHEMICAL CORP | EDDYVILLE | Toluene | 18k lb |
| EDDYVILLE CHLOR-ALKALI LLC | EDDYVILLE | Chlorine, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 10k lb |
| CARGILL-VITAMIN E | EDDYVILLE | Methanol, Methyl tert-butyl ether | 8k lb |
| AYM INC | ALBIA | Copper, Lead | 39 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 30 tank facilities in Monroe: 22 tanks in service and 65 closed. 21 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Monroe 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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