Seward County, KS
The federal environmental record for Seward County (population 21,067): 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
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
3
TRI facilities
12
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Seward 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)
3 facilities in Seward filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 103k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCP NATIONAL HELIUM PLANT | LIBERAL | Cyclohexane, Methanol | 75k lb |
| ARKALON ETHANOL LLC | LIBERAL | Acetaldehyde, Acrolein | 22k lb |
| NATIONAL BEEF PACKING CO LLC | LIBERAL | Ammonia, Peracetic acid | 6k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 105 tank facilities in Seward: 62 tanks in service and 242 closed. 125 fuel releases are on record, of which 12 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Seward 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.
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