Muscatine County, IA
The federal environmental record for Muscatine County (population 42,218): 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
9
TRI facilities
9
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Muscatine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MUSCATINE POWER & WATER IA7048001 | PFBA: 60 ng/L PFPeA: 8.1 ng/L PFOA: 7.2 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
9 facilities in Muscatine filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSAB IOWA INC. | MUSCATINE | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Zinc compounds | 3.1M lb |
| BAYER CROPSCIENCE LP | MUSCATINE | Formaldehyde, Ammonia | 64k lb |
| GRAIN PROCESSING CORP | MUSCATINE | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 58k lb |
| MUSCATINE POWER & WATER GENERATION | MUSCATINE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 20k lb |
| WEST LIBERTY FOODS L.L.C. | WEST LIBERTY | Ammonia | 7k lb |
| GERDAU WILTON | WILTON | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 3k lb |
| POTTERS INDUSTRIES LLC | MUSCATINE | Lead | 57 lb |
| CENTRAL SEATING OPERATIONS | MUSCATINE | - | 0 lb |
| RAYMOND-MUSCATINE INC | MUSCATINE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 173 tank facilities in Muscatine: 86 tanks in service and 400 closed. 82 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Muscatine 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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