Kandiyohi County, MN
The federal environmental record for Kandiyohi County (population 43,813): 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
6
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Kandiyohi 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)
6 facilities in Kandiyohi filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 19k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSHMILLS ETHANOL INC | ATWATER | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 19k lb |
| RELCO | WILLMAR | - | 0 lb |
| FARM SERVICE ELEVATOR | WILLMAR | - | 0 lb |
| JENNIE-O TURKEY STORE WILLMAR | WILLMAR | - | 0 lb |
| PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - WILLMAR | WILLMAR | - | 0 lb |
| JENNIE O TURKEY STORE ATWATER FEEDMILL | ATWATER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 181 tank facilities in Kandiyohi: 105 tanks in service and 434 closed. 141 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Kandiyohi 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.
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