McPherson County, KS
The federal environmental record for McPherson County (population 30,091): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
24
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving McPherson 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)
7 facilities in McPherson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 220k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHS MCPHERSON REFINERY - SRU | MCPHERSON | n-Hexane, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 144k lb |
| JOHNS MANVILLE | MCPHERSON | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Lead And Lead Compounds | 51k lb |
| MID-CONTINENT FRACTIONATION & STORAGE CONWAY FRA | MCPHERSON | n-Hexane, Methanol | 25k lb |
| ICS INC | MCPHERSON | Lead | 110 lb |
| CERTAINTEED LLC | MCPHERSON | Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) | 94 lb |
| MORIDGE MANUFACTURING INC | MOUNDRIDGE | Zinc compounds, Manganese | 18 lb |
| ONEOK HYDROCARBON LP MCPHERSON BUTANE ISOMERIZATION PLANT | MCPHERSON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 110 tank facilities in McPherson: 81 tanks in service and 241 closed. 137 fuel releases are on record, of which 24 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps McPherson 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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The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for McPherson, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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