Pottawatomie County, KS
The federal environmental record for Pottawatomie County (population 26,382): 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
4
TRI facilities
12
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Pottawatomie 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WAMEGO, CITY OF KS2014908 | PFBS: 10.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
4 facilities in Pottawatomie filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2.0M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEFFREY ENERGY CENTER | SAINT MARYS | Barium And Barium Compounds, Ammonia | 1.1M lb |
| ONYX COLLECTION INC | BELVUE | Styrene | 875k lb |
| PARKER HANNIFIN MANHATTAN FACILITY | MANHATTAN | Zinc compounds, Diphenylamine | 10k lb |
| CATERPILLAR WORK TOOLS & SERVICES | WAMEGO | Manganese, Propylene | 2k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 75 tank facilities in Pottawatomie: 47 tanks in service and 157 closed. 95 fuel releases are on record, of which 12 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Pottawatomie 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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