Butler, 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 Butler in Kansas · Population: 67,916
Butler, KS is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 8 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 22 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 45/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 2.1M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 12 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 (22)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| EL DORADO, CITY OF | 12,810 | 4 |
| AUGUSTA, CITY OF | 9,267 | 0 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 5 | 6,457 | 0 |
| ROSE HILL, CITY OF | 4,269 | 0 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 6 | 2,655 | 0 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 4 | 1,565 | 0 |
| DOUGLASS, CITY OF | 1,551 | 1 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 2 | 1,534 | 6 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 3 | 1,494 | 0 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 7 | 1,455 | 15 |
| TOWANDA, CITY OF | 1,445 | 2 |
| BENTON, CITY OF | 946 | 0 |
| BUTLER CO RWD 1 | 782 | 0 |
| LEON, CITY OF | 667 | 1 |
| WHITEWATER, CITY OF | 666 | 4 |
| POTWIN, CITY OF | 424 | 7 |
| BURNS, CITY OF | 232 | 3 |
| ELBING, CITY OF | 225 | 0 |
| CASSODAY, CITY OF | 111 | 8 |
| LATHAM, CITY OF | 101 | 4 |
| SIMMONS SUBDIVISION SANITATION SYSTEM | 75 | 11 |
| PUBLIC WHOLESALE WSD 8 | 1 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (8)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hf Sinclair el Dorado Refining LLC | 1.8M lbs |
| 2 | Sherwin-Williams Co | 261.5K lbs |
| 3 | Valmont Newmark | 24.1K lbs |
| 4 | Barton Solvents Inc. el Dorado Branch | 21.5K lbs |
| 5 | D-J Engineering | 371 lbs |
| 6 | Bg Products el Dorado Manufacturing Facility | 230 lbs |
| 7 | International Cold Storage | 0 lbs |
| 8 | Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions Inc. - el Dorado | 0 lbs |
Cities in Butler (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.