Montgomery County, KS
The federal environmental record for Montgomery County (population 30,568): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
8
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
13
TRI facilities
30
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caney Residential Yards | Caney | on the NPL | 09/03/2020 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| COFFEYVILLE, CITY OF KS2012513 | PFBS: 3.1 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
13 facilities in Montgomery filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| COFFEYVILLE RESOURCES NITROGEN FERTILIZERS LLC | COFFEYVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 673k lb |
| COFFEYVILLE RESOURCES REFINING & MARKETING | COFFEYVILLE | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 329k lb |
| TESSENDERLO KERLEY INC. | COFFEYVILLE | Ammonia, Hydrogen sulfide | 117k lb |
| ACME FOUNDRY INC | COFFEYVILLE | Manganese, Chromium | 40k lb |
| EMERALD TRANSFORMER PPM LLC | COFFEYVILLE | 1-Bromopropane, Polychlorinated biphenyls | 31k lb |
| MFG CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS | INDEPENDENCE | Styrene | 22k lb |
| JOHN DEERE COFFEYVILLE WORKS A DIV OF DEERE & COMPAN | COFFEYVILLE | Methanol, Nickel | 10k lb |
| FORTE PRODUCTS | CHERRYVALE | Styrene | 8k lb |
| STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS | INDEPENDENCE | Zinc compounds, Lead | 678 lb |
| TEXTRON AVIATION/INDEPENDENCE FACILITY | INDEPENDENCE | Lead And Lead Compounds | 107 lb |
| ST ENGINEERING HACKNEY INC | INDEPENDENCE | - | 0 lb |
| SPEARS MANUFACTURING CO | CANEY | - | 0 lb |
| SP FOUNDRY | COFFEYVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 137 tank facilities in Montgomery: 63 tanks in service and 327 closed. 184 fuel releases are on record, of which 30 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Montgomery as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Montgomery, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- 1202 NORTH STATE SMELTER COMPLAINTCANEY
- AMERICAN ZINC & LEAD SMELTING CO - FORMERCANEY
- CANEY RESIDENTIAL YARDSCANEY
- CANEY SMELTER COMPLAINTCANEY
- CROWE PROPERTYCANEY
- OSAGE AND WALNUTCOFFEYVILLE
- OWEN ZINC COMPANY (FORMER)CANEY
- ROBERDS PROPERTYCANEY