Beadle County, SD
The federal environmental record for Beadle County (population 19,591): 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
5
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Beadle 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)
5 facilities in Beadle filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 18k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| HURON ENERGY | HURON | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 18k lb |
| TEREX SOUTH DAKOTA INC | HURON | Manganese | 85 lb |
| DAKOTALAND FEEDS LLC | HURON | - | 0 lb |
| HUBBARD FEEDS INC HURON | HURON | - | 0 lb |
| DAKOTA TURKEY GROWERS | HURON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 81 tank facilities in Beadle: 50 tanks in service and 189 closed. 127 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Beadle 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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