Steele County, MN
The federal environmental record for Steele County (population 37,421): 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
13
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Steele 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)
13 facilities in Steele filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 249k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROWN FOOD PACKAGING | OWATONNA | n-Butyl alcohol, Certain glycol ethers | 233k lb |
| VIRACON LLC | OWATONNA | Certain glycol ethers | 15k lb |
| CARGILL INC | BLOOMING PRAIRIE | Formic acid, Peracetic acid | 409 lb |
| DAIKIN APPLIED OWATONNA MN | OWATONNA | Chromium, Nickel | 215 lb |
| LIFE FITNESS LLC | OWATONNA | Manganese, Nickel | 50 lb |
| WENGER CORP | OWATONNA | Manganese, Chromium | 21 lb |
| JOSTENS INC - SOUTHTOWN | OWATONNA | Nitric acid | 3 lb |
| TANDEM PRODUCTS INC | BLOOMING PRAIRIE | Manganese, Lead | 1 lb |
| TCC - MEDFORD | MEDFORD | Lead | 0 lb |
| CLIMATE BY DESIGN | OWATONNA | - | 0 lb |
| CEMSTONE BATCH PLANT | OWATONNA | Lead | 0 lb |
| TRUTH HARDWARE CORP-OWATONNA | OWATONNA | Lead | 0 lb |
| TCC MATERIALS - MEDFORD | MEDFORD | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 132 tank facilities in Steele: 75 tanks in service and 311 closed. 108 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Steele 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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