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Scotts Bluff County, NE

The federal environmental record for Scotts Bluff County (population 35,699): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

0

Superfund NPL sites

4

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

1

TRI facilities

4

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Scotts Bluff 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)

1 facilities in Scotts Bluff filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 124k lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVESCOTTSBLUFFAmmonia, Nitric acid124k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 33 tank facilities in Scotts Bluff: 60 tanks in service and 32 closed. 196 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Scotts Bluff 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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All federal cleanup sites on file

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

  • 14TH STREET AND BROADWAY DRY CLEANERSCOTTSBLUFF
  • B&T METALSGERING
  • PFAS WILLIAM B. HEILIG FIELDSCOTTSBLUFF
  • WESTERN AREA POWER ADMIN - FOUNDRYGERING