Kossuth, 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 Kossuth in Iowa · Population: 14,610
Kossuth, IA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 7 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 20 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 25/100 (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 239.0K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 1 water system carries 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 (20)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| ALGONA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES | 5,487 | 0 |
| BUFFALO CENTER MUNI WATER DEPT | 857 | 0 |
| BANCROFT WATER SUPPLY | 711 | 0 |
| SWEA CITY WATER SUPPLY | 584 | 0 |
| WHITTEMORE MUNI WATER SUPPLY | 522 | 0 |
| TITONKA WATER SUPPLY | 511 | 0 |
| BURT WATER SUPPLY | 418 | 0 |
| WESLEY WATER SUPPLY | 390 | 0 |
| LU VERNE WATER SUPPLY | 258 | 0 |
| FENTON MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY | 254 | 0 |
| RAKE WATER SUPPLY | 186 | 0 |
| LONE ROCK WATER SUPPLY | 146 | 0 |
| HAVELOCK WATER SUPPLY | 130 | 0 |
| OAK LAKE MAINTENANCE, INC. | 128 | 0 |
| LEDYARD WATER SUPPLY | 121 | 0 |
| WOODLYN HILLS | 80 | 0 |
| SOUTHDALE HOME OWNERS ASSN | 70 | 0 |
| OAK SHORES | 55 | 0 |
| PLOVER WATER SUPPLY | 50 | 7 |
| OTTOSEN WATER SUPPLY | 41 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (7)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandfx LLC | 115.5K lbs |
| 2 | Valero Lakota Plant | 62.1K lbs |
| 3 | Ag Processing Inc.-Algona Methyl Ester | 54.2K lbs |
| 4 | A.i. Processors | 7.0K lbs |
| 5 | Murphy Brown LLC Algona Feed Mill | 150 lbs |
| 6 | Snap-On Tools Manufacturing Co | 77 lbs |
| 7 | Standard Nutrition Co | 0 lbs |
Cities in Kossuth (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.