Butte, SD
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 Butte in South Dakota · Population: 10,538
Butte, SD is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 1 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility, 9 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 17/100 (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 3 lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 5 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 (9)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| BELLE FOURCHE | 5,617 | 0 |
| BUTTE-MEADE SWD-BEAN WELL | 1,481 | 0 |
| NEWELL | 583 | 1 |
| BUTTE-MEADE SWD-VALE WELL | 357 | 0 |
| HAY CREEK WATER COMPANY | 323 | 5 |
| NISLAND | 206 | 6 |
| BLACK HILLS WATER DISTRIBUTION, LLC | 135 | 0 |
| VALE SANITARY DISTRICT | 120 | 3 |
| FRUITDALE | 75 | 2 |
TRI Facilities (1)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Permian Tank & Manufacturing Inc Belle Fourche Plant | 3 lbs |
Cities in Butte (1)
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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.