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Saunders County, NE

The federal environmental record for Saunders County (population 23,463): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

1

Superfund NPL sites

6

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

2

TRI facilities

9

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

SiteCityStatusListed
Nebraska Ordnance Plant (Former)Meadon the NPL08/30/1990

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Saunders 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)

2 facilities in Saunders filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 153k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.WAHOONitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia143k lb
OMAHA STEEL CASTINGS CO LLCWAHOOChromium, Nickel10k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 32 tank facilities in Saunders: 66 tanks in service and 15 closed. 122 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Saunders 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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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Saunders, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • ABANDONED D O D BOMB FACILITYMEAD
  • ALTEN, LLCMEAD
  • MEAD PESTICIDE PITSMEAD
  • MEAD TRAININGMEAD
  • NE ARNG CAMP ASHLAND REGION IVASHLAND
  • NEBRASKA ORDNANCE PLANT (FORMER)MEAD