Manistee County, MI
The federal environmental record for Manistee County (population 25,562): 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
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
3
TRI facilities
34
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packaging Corp. of America | Filer City | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Manistee 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 Manistee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 883k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA | FILER CITY | Zinc compounds, Methanol | 838k lb |
| T.E.S. FILER CITY STATION | FILER CITY | Zinc compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 46k lb |
| MORTON SALT INC | MANISTEE | Mercury, Lead compounds | 23 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 171 tank facilities in Manistee: 68 tanks in service and 399 closed. 88 fuel releases are on record, of which 34 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Manistee as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 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 Manistee, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BROWN 19 GAS PLANTMANISTEE
- PACKAGING CORP. OF AMERICAFILER CITY