Boone County, MO
The federal environmental record for Boone County (population 189,463): 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
7
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Boone 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)
7 facilities in Boone filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 7k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| GATES CORP | COLUMBIA | Toluene, Zinc compounds | 3k lb |
| HUBBELL POWER SYSTEMS - ALLEN STREET COMPLEX | CENTRALIA | Zinc compounds, Manganese | 3k lb |
| HUBBELL POWER SYSTEMS - EAST ST/PLASTICS | CENTRALIA | Styrene, Lead And Lead Compounds | 520 lb |
| HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC | COLUMBIA | Zinc compounds | 273 lb |
| JBS LIVE PORK CENTRALIA FEED MILL | CENTRALIA | - | 0 lb |
| CENTRAL CONCRETE CO | COLUMBIA | - | 0 lb |
| AAF INTERNATIONAL-COLUMBIA PLANT | COLUMBIA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 298 tank facilities in Boone: 209 tanks in service and 646 closed. 160 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Boone as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 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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