Barron County, WI
The federal environmental record for Barron County (population 46,833): 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
12
TRI facilities
8
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Barron 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)
12 facilities in Barron filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 89k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3M CUMBERLAND | CUMBERLAND | Methanol | 32k lb |
| SAPUTO CHEESE USA INC | ALMENA | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 19k lb |
| JOHNSON TRUCK BODIES LLC | RICE LAKE | Styrene, Diisocyanates | 18k lb |
| MASTERCRAFT INDUSTRIES INC | RICE LAKE | Toluene, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 12k lb |
| F/G PRODUCTS INC | RICE LAKE | Styrene | 8k lb |
| LEJEUNE STEEL CO. (2950 BARRONETT) | BARRONETT | Nickel, Manganese | 159 lb |
| PARKER HANNIFIN CORP | CHETEK | Copper, Lead | 5 lb |
| RICE LAKE WEIGHING SYSTEMS | RICE LAKE | Lead | 1 lb |
| TODD'S REDIMIX CONCRETE | RICE LAKE | Lead | 0 lb |
| JENNIE-O-TURKEY STORE BARRON | BARRON | - | 0 lb |
| STELLA-JONES CORP | CAMERON | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
| HENRY RAC HOLDING CORP | RICE LAKE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 424 tank facilities in Barron: 135 tanks in service and 840 closed. 156 fuel releases are on record, of which 8 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Barron 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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