Pettis County, MO
The federal environmental record for Pettis County (population 43,530): 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
19
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Pettis 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)
19 facilities in Pettis filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.5M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYSON POULTRY INC. - PROCESSING PLANT | SEDALIA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 1.1M lb |
| EDWARDS FIBERGLASS | SEDALIA | Styrene | 214k lb |
| NUCOR STEEL SEDALIA LLC | SEDALIA | Manganese And Manganese Compounds, Zinc compounds | 82k lb |
| OWENS CORNING INSULATING SYSTEMS LLC | SEDALIA | Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 34k lb |
| PRYSMIAN CABLES & SYSTEMS USA LLC | SEDALIA | Methanol | 19k lb |
| MAXION WHEELS SEDALIA LLC | SEDALIA | Zinc compounds, Manganese compounds | 11k lb |
| DUKE MANUFACTURING CO | SEDALIA | Diisocyanates | 750 lb |
| WIRECO WORLDGROUP SEDALIA FACILITY | SEDALIA | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 129 lb |
| SIERRA BULLETS L.L.C. | SEDALIA | Copper, Lead | 8 lb |
| WATERLOO INDUSTRIES INC | SEDALIA | Diisocyanates | 5 lb |
| DELONG'S INC | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| STARLINE INC | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| SEDALIA PELHAM | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| FCS - WEST CENTRAL CONCRETE SEDALIA | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| JBS LIVE PORK SMITHTON FEED MILL | SMITHTON | - | 0 lb |
| FISCHERS CONCRETE SERVICE - SEDALIA | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC-SEDALIA FEED MILL | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES & SERVICES LLC | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
| MISSOURI PRESSED METALS INC | SEDALIA | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 136 tank facilities in Pettis: 53 tanks in service and 261 closed. 62 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Pettis 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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