Mcpherson, KS
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 Mcpherson in Kansas · Population: 30,130
Mcpherson, KS is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 10 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 12 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 39/100 (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 1.7M 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 (12)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| MCPHERSON, CITY OF | 13,944 | 0 |
| LINDSBORG, CITY OF | 3,496 | 0 |
| MOUNDRIDGE, CITY OF | 1,958 | 0 |
| INMAN, CITY OF | 1,316 | 0 |
| GALVA, CITY OF | 870 | 5 |
| CANTON, CITY OF | 699 | 10 |
| MCPHERSON CO RWD 4 | 636 | 0 |
| MARQUETTE, CITY OF | 596 | 1 |
| MCPHERSON CO RWD 6 | 500 | 0 |
| MCPHERSON CO RWD 2 | 186 | 0 |
| WINDOM, CITY OF | 93 | 0 |
| MCPHERSON CO RWD 3 | 28 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (10)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chs McPherson Refinery - Sru | 810.0K lbs |
| 2 | Mid-Continent Fractionation & Storage Conway Fra | 381.9K lbs |
| 3 | Viega Logistics Facility | 290.8K lbs |
| 4 | Johns Manville | 232.3K lbs |
| 5 | Cargill Animal Nutrition | 2.4K lbs |
| 6 | Ics Inc | 547 lbs |
| 7 | Certainteed LLC | 477 lbs |
| 8 | Chemstar Products | 103 lbs |
| 9 | Moridge Manufacturing Inc | 98 lbs |
| 10 | Oneok Hydrocarbon LP McPherson Butane Isomerization Plant | 0 lbs |
Cities in Mcpherson (3)
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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.