Wyandotte County, KS
The federal environmental record for Wyandotte County (population 165,281): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
8
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
38
TRI facilities
54
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Wyandotte 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)
38 facilities in Wyandotte filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 4.1M lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECOVYST CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES LLC | KANSAS CITY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 2.6M lb |
| NEARMAN CREEK POWER STATION | KANSAS CITY | Barium And Barium Compounds, Ammonia | 423k lb |
| AMSTED RAIL CO GRIFFIN WHEEL KANSAS CITY FACILITY | KANSAS CITY | Manganese, Phenol | 343k lb |
| GM MLCG FAIRFAX ASSEMBLY | KANSAS CITY | Certain glycol ethers, n-Butyl alcohol | 323k lb |
| CERTAINTEED LLC | KANSAS CITY | Ammonia, Lead compounds | 171k lb |
| OWENS CORNING INSULATING SYSTEMS LLC - KANSAS CITY | KANSAS CITY | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 79k lb |
| NEXEO SOLUTIONS LLC | KANSAS CITY | Toluene, Methanol | 44k lb |
| HARCROS CHEMICALS INC | KANSAS CITY | Propylene oxide, n-Butyl alcohol | 11k lb |
| KELLANOVA MANUFACTURING LLC | KANSAS CITY | Acetaldehyde, Formaldehyde | 8k lb |
| BARTON SOLVENTS INC KANSAS CITY | KANSAS CITY | Methanol, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 4k lb |
| PHILLIPS 66 KANSAS CITY TERMINAL | KANSAS CITY | Xylene (mixed isomers), Toluene | 4k lb |
| VERSAFLEX | KANSAS CITY | Diisocyanates | 4k lb |
| FORDYCE CONCRETE CO INC CENTRAL AVENUE FACILITY | KANSAS CITY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 4k lb |
| ALLEGIANT MANUFACTURING LLC | KANSAS CITY | Manganese, Chromium | 3k lb |
| CENTURY CONCRETE INC EDWARDSVILLE FACILITY | EDWARDSVILLE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead And Lead Compounds | 2k lb |
| TCC MATERIALS - KANSAS CITY | KANSAS CITY | 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 2k lb |
| GNB KCK LLC | KANSAS CITY | Lead, Antimony | 1k lb |
| PBI/GORDON CORP | KANSAS CITY | Dicamba, 2,4-D | 1k lb |
| FUCHS LUBRICANTS CO. | KANSAS CITY | Zinc compounds, Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 348 lb |
| KANSAS CITY BPU QUINDARO POWER STATION | KANSAS CITY | 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 103 lb |
| KANSAS CITY READYMIX LLC DBA TALON CONCRETE - BUNKER | KANSAS CITY | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead compounds | 67 lb |
| GEIGER READY MIX (K.C. FACILITY) MANAGER | KANSAS CITY | Lead, Mercury | 4 lb |
| PENTAIR - KANSAS CITY OPERATION | KANSAS CITY | Nickel | 1 lb |
| ERGON ASPHALT & EMULSIONS INC. - WOLCOTT | KANSAS CITY | - | 0 lb |
| SPECCHEM LLC | KANSAS CITY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 539 tank facilities in Wyandotte: 304 tanks in service and 1,240 closed. 675 fuel releases are on record, of which 54 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Wyandotte 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Wyandotte, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ADVANTAGE METALS RECYCLING LLCKANSAS CITY
- KANSAS NATL GUARD ARMORYKANSAS CITY
- MERRIAM LANE UPGRADIENTKANSAS CITY
- PCB INC - KANSASKANSAS CITY
- REGION 7 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CENTERKANSAS CITY
- SOUTH 26TH STREET ABANDONED WAREHOUSE FIREKANSAS CITY
- TCE WEST 47TH TERRACE & SOUTH 28TH STREETKANSAS CITY
- U.S. EPA REGION 7 LABORATORYKANSAS CITY