Brookings County, SD
The federal environmental record for Brookings County (population 35,980): 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
8
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Brookings 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)
8 facilities in Brookings filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 969k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVITA AURORA LLC | AURORA | n-Hexane | 459k lb |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SOYBEAN PROCESSORS | VOLGA | n-Hexane | 443k lb |
| SOLVENTUM BROOKINGS | BROOKINGS | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 44k lb |
| VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS LLC* | AURORA | Acetaldehyde, n-Hexane | 24k lb |
| TWIN CITY FAN COS BROOKINGS | BROOKINGS | Chromium, Nickel | 3 lb |
| TWIN CITY FAN COS INSBROOK | BROOKINGS | Chromium, Nickel | 2 lb |
| GCC-BROOKINGS | BROOKINGS | - | 0 lb |
| DAKTRONICS INC | BROOKINGS | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 95 tank facilities in Brookings: 71 tanks in service and 223 closed. 111 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Brookings 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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