Richland County, WI
The federal environmental record for Richland County (population 17,197): 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
12
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Richland 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 Richland filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 458 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREMOST FARMS USA | RICHLAND CENTER | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 456 lb |
| SCHREIBER FOODS INC | RICHLAND CENTER | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 2 lb |
| SCHREIBER FOODS INC | RICHLAND CENTER | - | 0 lb |
| SEATS INC RICHLAND CENTER | RICHLAND CENTER | - | 0 lb |
| ALLIED MACHINERY RICHLAND LLC | RICHLAND CENTER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 190 tank facilities in Richland: 48 tanks in service and 363 closed. 122 fuel releases are on record, of which 12 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Richland 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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