Ward County, ND

The federal environmental record for Ward County (population 68,332): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

Superfund NPL sites

federal cleanup sites

PFAS-detecting water systems

TRI facilities

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

Site	City	Status	Listed
Minot Landfill	Minot	deleted	03/31/1989

Drinking water: PFAS testing

Public water systems serving Ward with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.

System	Highest results	Reading
NORTH PRAIRIE RWD-SYSTEM 1&2 ND5101125	PFPeA: 3 ng/L	detected

On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)

1 facilities in Ward filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 2k lb released.

Facility	City	Top chemicals	Total released
US DOD USAF MINOT AFB	MINOT AFB	Lead, Naphthalene	2k lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 266 tank facilities in Ward: 203 tanks in service and 572 closed. 81 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Ward 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 Ward, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

MINOT LANDFILLMINOT
ROBINSON INSULATION MINOT PLANTMINOT
US DOD USAF MINOT AFBMINOT AFB