Lincoln, 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 Lincoln in South Dakota · Population: 68,286
Lincoln, SD is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 5 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 9 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 436.9K 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 (9)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| HARRISBURG | 10,297 | 0 |
| TEA | 7,381 | 0 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY RURAL WATER SYSTEM | 5,965 | 0 |
| SOUTH LINCOLN RURAL WATER SYSTEM | 5,250 | 0 |
| CANTON | 3,066 | 0 |
| LENNOX | 2,571 | 0 |
| BERESFORD | 2,359 | 0 |
| WORTHING | 939 | 7 |
| HUDSON | 332 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (5)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Showplace Wood Products | 227.8K lbs |
| 2 | Poet Biorefining - Hudson | 203.9K lbs |
| 3 | Omega Liner Co Inc. | 5.0K lbs |
| 4 | Wilson Trailer Co | 188 lbs |
| 5 | Harvard Integrations | 44 lbs |
Cities in Lincoln (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.