Buchanan County, MO
The federal environmental record for Buchanan County (population 82,956): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
10
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
20
TRI facilities
19
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Buchanan 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)
20 facilities in Buchanan filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.7M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATIONAL BEEF LEATHERS LLC | SAINT JOSEPH | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Ammonia | 1.2M lb |
| AG PROCESSING INC | SAINT JOSEPH | n-Hexane, Methanol | 385k lb |
| BLUESCOPE BUILDINGS N.A. INC. | SAINT JOSEPH | Nickel, Certain glycol ethers | 42k lb |
| CLARIOS LLC | SAINT JOSEPH | Lead And Lead Compounds, Antimony And Antimony Compounds | 33k lb |
| THE HILLSHIRE BRANDS ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI | SAINT JOSEPH | Ammonia | 22k lb |
| TRIUMPH FOODS LLC | SAINT JOSEPH | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 17k lb |
| ICM BIOFUELS LLC | SAINT JOSEPH | Acetaldehyde, Methanol | 16k lb |
| ALTEC INDUSTRIES INC | SAINT JOSEPH | Styrene, Lead | 15k lb |
| ALBAUGH INC. | SAINT JOSEPH | Dimethylamine, 2,4-D 2-ethylhexyl ester | 15k lb |
| SILGAN CONTAINERS MANUFACTURING CORP | SAINT JOSEPH | n-Butyl alcohol, Certain glycol ethers | 4k lb |
| HILLYARD INDUSTRIES INC | SAINT JOSEPH | Certain glycol ethers, Zinc compounds | 4k lb |
| OMNIUM | SAINT JOSEPH | Atrazine, Simazine | 3k lb |
| NESTLE PURINA PETCARE | SAINT JOSEPH | Copper compounds, Zinc compounds | 3k lb |
| BIOZYME INC | SAINT JOSEPH | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 2k lb |
| CLARIOS DISTRIBUTION CENTER | SAINT JOSEPH | Lead And Lead Compounds | 2k lb |
| RITEPACK INC | SAINT JOSEPH | Naphthalene | 10 lb |
| LAKE ROAD STATION | SAINT JOSEPH | Naphthalene | 6 lb |
| BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH--N. BELT CAMPUS | SAINT JOSEPH | Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 5 lb |
| BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH - CENTRAL WAREHOUSE | SAINT JOSEPH | Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 2 lb |
| PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC-ST JOSEPH | SAINT JOSEPH | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 284 tank facilities in Buchanan: 148 tanks in service and 610 closed. 144 fuel releases are on record, of which 19 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Buchanan 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 Buchanan, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- FARMLAND INDUSTRIES OLD INSECTICIDE PLTST JOSEPH
- HPI CHEMICAL PRODUCTSST JOSEPH
- HPI PRODUCTS 1300 SOUTH EIGHTH STREETST JOSEPH
- HPI PRODUCTS, INC - 3RD STREETST JOSEPH
- HPI PRODUCTS, INC.SAINT JOSEPH
- HPI SOUTH EIGHTH STREETST JOSEPH
- LAKE ROAD WAREHOUSE COST JOSEPH
- MISSOURI AIR NATIONAL GUARD 139TH AIRLIFT WINGSAINT JOSEPH
- OAK MILL INCST JOSEPH
- ST JOSEPH CITY LANDFILL - MACARTHUR DRSAINT JOSEPH