Chisago, MN
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 Chisago in Minnesota · Population: 57,434
Chisago, MN is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 7 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 14 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 31/100 (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 185.4K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 3 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 (14)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| North Branch | 6,190 | 0 |
| Lindstrom | 4,938 | 0 |
| Chisago City | 3,745 | 0 |
| Rush City | 3,339 | 4 |
| Stacy | 1,593 | 8 |
| Shafer | 1,165 | 0 |
| Taylors Falls | 1,067 | 0 |
| Harris | 400 | 0 |
| Center City | 305 | 0 |
| River Bend Mobile Home Park, Inc. | 100 | 0 |
| Stonegate Co-op, Inc. | 90 | 0 |
| Shorewood Park | 85 | 7 |
| Peaceful Valley Mobile Home Park | 50 | 0 |
| Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park | 40 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (7)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andersen Extrusion North Branch | 89.8K lbs |
| 2 | Sunrise Fiberglass of Minnesota LLC | 68.4K lbs |
| 3 | Zinpro Corp | 27.2K lbs |
| 4 | Forterra Pipe & Precast - Stacy | 1 lbs |
| 5 | Knife River Central Minnesota Asphalt Plant 5 | 1 lbs |
| 6 | Plastech Corp | 0 lbs |
| 7 | Rosenbauer Motors LLC | 0 lbs |
Cities in Chisago (5)
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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.