Barton, KS
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Barton in Kansas · Population: 25,275
Barton, KS is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 7 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 11 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 27/100 (Low Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 97.2K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 2 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (11)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| GREAT BEND, CITY OF | 14,580 | 0 |
| HOISINGTON, CITY OF | 2,657 | 0 |
| ELLINWOOD, CITY OF | 1,989 | 0 |
| RUSSELL CO RWD 3 | 1,300 | 0 |
| BARTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | 1,000 | 0 |
| CLAFLIN, CITY OF | 553 | 0 |
| BARTON CO RWD 2 | 368 | 13 |
| SUNDOWNER, INC | 220 | 2 |
| BARTON HILLS ADDITION | 176 | 0 |
| OLMITZ, CITY OF | 91 | 0 |
| SUSANK, CITY OF | 28 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (7)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McDonald Tank & Equipment Co Inc | 89.1K lbs |
| 2 | Fuller Industries Inc | 3.3K lbs |
| 3 | Superior Essex International Inc. | 3.1K lbs |
| 4 | Doonan Specialized Trailer LLC | 1.5K lbs |
| 5 | Kmw Ltd | 185 lbs |
| 6 | Hampton Hydraulics LLC (great Bend Industries) | 11 lbs |
| 7 | Nalco Company-Great Bend | 0 lbs |
Cities in Barton (2)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.