Polk County, WI
The federal environmental record for Polk County (population 45,762): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
14
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Polk 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)
4 facilities in Polk filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 35k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREMOST FARMS USA | CLAYTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 25k lb |
| WISCONSIN WHEY PROTEIN | TURTLE LAKE | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid | 10k lb |
| CRM - DRESSER | OSCEOLA | Lead | 0 lb |
| ADVANCED FOOD PRODUCTS LLC | CLEAR LAKE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 280 tank facilities in Polk: 133 tanks in service and 594 closed. 156 fuel releases are on record, of which 14 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Polk 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Polk, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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