Buffalo County, NE
The federal environmental record for Buffalo County (population 50,697): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
10
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Buffalo 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 Buffalo filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 157k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE ANDERSONS INC. - GIBBON | GIBBON | Ammonia | 94k lb |
| KAAPA ETHANOL RAVENNA LLC | RAVENNA | n-Hexane, Acrolein | 30k lb |
| GIBBON PACKING LLC | GIBBON | Ammonia | 15k lb |
| EATON CORP | KEARNEY | Chromium, Nickel | 15k lb |
| BALDWIN FILTERS INC | KEARNEY | Sodium nitrite, Manganese | 4k lb |
| CHIEF INDUSTRIES INC - AGRI/INDUSTRIAL DIV | KEARNEY | - | 0 lb |
| KEARNEY CRETE & BLOCK CO | KEARNEY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 64 tank facilities in Buffalo: 150 tanks in service and 21 closed. 263 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Buffalo 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Buffalo, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- KEARNEY FORMER DRY CLEANER - 802 WEST 25TH STREETKEARNEY
- PCE FORMER QUALITY CLEANERS 2400 CENTRAL AVEKEARNEY
- PFAS KEARNEY AIRPORTKEARNEY