Reno County, KS
The federal environmental record for Reno County (population 61,497): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
11
TRI facilities
34
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obee Road | Hutchinson | on the NPL | 07/22/1987 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Reno 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)
11 facilities in Reno filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 82k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| YODER SMOKERS INC. | HUTCHINSON | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 45k lb |
| ONEOK HYDROCARBON L.P. - HUTCHINSON FRACTIONATION FACILITY | HUTCHINSON | n-Hexane, Benzene | 20k lb |
| TYSON PREPARED FOODS-SOUTH HUTCHINSON KS | SOUTH HUTCHINSON | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 16k lb |
| KUHN KRAUSE INC | HUTCHINSON | Manganese, Nickel | 926 lb |
| TAKAKO AMERICA CO INC | HUTCHINSON | Copper | 54 lb |
| JACKSON DAIRY | HUTCHINSON | Nitric acid | 51 lb |
| ADE-WIFCO STEEL PRODUCTS INC | HUTCHINSON | Manganese, Chromium | 27 lb |
| HAVEN STEEL PRODUCTS INC. | HAVEN | Chromium, Nickel | 10 lb |
| HUTCHINSON ENERGY CENTER | HUTCHINSON | Naphthalene | 6 lb |
| COLLINS BUS CORP | SOUTH HUTCHINSON | Manganese, Copper | 0 lb |
| SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INC | HUTCHINSON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 239 tank facilities in Reno: 133 tanks in service and 576 closed. 259 fuel releases are on record, of which 34 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Reno 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 Reno, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- FARMLAND INDUSTRIES INCHUTCHINSON
- HUTCHINSON (EX) NAVAL AIR STATIONHUTCHINSON
- HUTCHINSON NAVAL AIR STATION OUTLYING FIELD #1HUTCHINSON
- HUTCHINSON NAVAL AIR STATION TRENCHHUTCHINSON
- MCCONNELL TITAN II -18HAVEN
- OBEE ROADHUTCHINSON