Blue Earth County, MN
The federal environmental record for Blue Earth County (population 70,006): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
1
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
14
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehillier/Mankato Site | Lehillier | on the NPL | 09/08/1983 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Blue Earth 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)
14 facilities in Blue Earth filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.5M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADM | MANKATO | n-Hexane | 689k lb |
| CHS MANKATO | MANKATO | n-Hexane, Formic acid | 639k lb |
| CROWN CORK & SEAL CO INC | MANKATO | Cyclohexane | 93k lb |
| MANKATO ENERGY CENTER | MANKATO | Ammonia | 84k lb |
| POET BIOREFINING LAKE CRYSTAL | LAKE CRYSTAL | Acetaldehyde, Formic acid | 16k lb |
| TBEI - TRUCK BODIES & EQUIPMENT INTERNATIONAL (LAKE CRYSTAL) | LAKE CRYSTAL | Phosphorus (yellow or white), Chromium | 7k lb |
| INDUSTRIAL FABRICATION SERVICES INC. | LAKE CRYSTAL | Xylene (mixed isomers) | 4k lb |
| MPS MANKATO LLC | MANKATO | Manganese, Copper | 971 lb |
| CCM - MANKATO NORTH | MANKATO | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Lead | 63 lb |
| NORTECH SYSTEMS-MANKATO | MANKATO | Lead | 2 lb |
| BIG GAIN INC | MANKATO | - | 0 lb |
| HUBBARD FEEDS INC | MANKATO | - | 0 lb |
| MINNESOTA ELEVATOR INC | MANKATO | - | 0 lb |
| ROLLS-ROYCE SOLUTIONS AMERICA INC. | MANKATO | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 218 tank facilities in Blue Earth: 180 tanks in service and 456 closed. 154 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Blue Earth 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 Blue Earth, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- LEHILLIER/MANKATOLEHILLIER