Buena Vista, IA
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 Buena Vista in Iowa · Population: 20,684
Buena Vista, IA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 8 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 19 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 24/100 (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 473.4K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 0 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 (19)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| STORM LAKE WATER TREATMENT PLANT | 11,431 | 0 |
| ALTA MUNICIPAL WATER PLANT | 2,087 | 0 |
| SIOUX RAPIDS WATER DEPARTMENT | 920 | 0 |
| NEWELL WATER TREATMENT PLANT | 906 | 0 |
| LAKESIDE WATER SUPPLY | 700 | 0 |
| ALBERT CITY MUNI WATER SUPPLY | 677 | 0 |
| LOHRVILLE WATER SUPPLY | 381 | 0 |
| TWIN LAKES UTILITIES | 300 | 0 |
| CLEGHORN WATER SUPPLY | 240 | 0 |
| MARATHON LIGHT & WATER DEPARTMENT | 230 | 0 |
| CUSHING WATER SUPPLY | 230 | 0 |
| ARTHUR MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY | 222 | 0 |
| REMBRANDT WATER SUPPLY | 209 | 0 |
| LAKE CREEK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION | 175 | 0 |
| MERIDEN MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY | 161 | 0 |
| BRUNSVILLE MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY | 129 | 0 |
| LARRABEE MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS | 123 | 0 |
| WESTFIELD WATER SUPPLY | 123 | 0 |
| HILLTOP VILLAGE MHC, INC. | 82 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (8)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyson Fresh Meats Inc | 163.8K lbs |
| 2 | Rembrandt Enterprises Inc. | 108.6K lbs |
| 3 | Hillshire Brands Plant-Wholly Owned Sub of Tyson Foods Inc | 108.2K lbs |
| 4 | Valero Renewable Fuels Albert City* | 91.7K lbs |
| 5 | Furst McNess Co | 1.0K lbs |
| 6 | Meridian Manufacturing Inc. | 0 lbs |
| 7 | Hillshire Brands Mill-Wholly Owned Sub of Tyson Foods Inc | 0 lbs |
| 8 | The Hillshire Brands Co Feed Mill | 0 lbs |
Cities in Buena Vista (3)
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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.