Mecosta County, MI
The federal environmental record for Mecosta County (population 41,099): 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
34
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Mecosta 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 Mecosta filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 11k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGCO INC. | REMUS | Styrene | 11k lb |
| LEPRINO FOODS CO | REMUS | Nitric acid | 255 lb |
| SIMONDS INTERNATIONAL LLC | BIG RAPIDS | Chromium | 3 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 136 tank facilities in Mecosta: 76 tanks in service and 343 closed. 79 fuel releases are on record, of which 34 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Mecosta 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.
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