Cape Girardeau, MO
Environmental data for Cape Girardeau in Missouri
Cape Girardeau, MO is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 13 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilityies, 0 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 34/100 (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 6.9M 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.
TRI Facilities (13)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biokyowa Inc | 3.6M lbs |
| 2 | Midwest Sterilization Corp | 2.3M lbs |
| 3 | Buzzi Unicem Usa-Cape Girardeau | 904.5K lbs |
| 4 | Mondi Jackson Llc. | 89.5K lbs |
| 5 | Qc Corp | 31.5K lbs |
| 6 | Leggett & Platt Inc | 9.9K lbs |
| 7 | Safety-Kleen Systems Cape Girardeau (cap) | 7.6K lbs |
| 8 | Mid South Steel Products | 1.8K lbs |
| 9 | Greenbrier Central LLC | 1.1K lbs |
| 10 | Nlc Inc | 220 lbs |
| 11 | Spartech | 20 lbs |
| 12 | The Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co | 19 lbs |
| 13 | Semo Ready Mix - Jackson | 0 lbs |
Cities in Cape Girardeau (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.