Montgomery, KS
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against every other tracked county rather than against fixed national thresholds.
Environmental data for Montgomery in Kansas · Population: 31,143
Montgomery, KS is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 14 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 15 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 49/100 (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 5.9M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 7 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 (15)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| COFFEYVILLE, CITY OF | 8,847 | 4 |
| INDEPENDENCE, CITY OF | 8,464 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 1C | 2,450 | 1 |
| CHERRYVALE, CITY OF | 2,159 | 0 |
| CANEY, CITY OF | 1,756 | 29 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 2 | 800 | 1 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 12 | 756 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 4 | 745 | 0 |
| LABETTE CO RWD 7 | 540 | 0 |
| DEARING, CITY OF | 376 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 8 | 340 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 14 | 330 | 7 |
| ELK CITY, CITY OF | 292 | 142 |
| MONTGOMERY CO RWD 1 | 175 | 1 |
| PUBLIC WHOLESALE WSD 4 | 1 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (14)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers LLC | 3.6M lbs |
| 2 | Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing | 1.4M lbs |
| 3 | Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. | 541.9K lbs |
| 4 | Emerald Transformer Ppm LLC | 104.6K lbs |
| 5 | Acme Foundry Inc | 104.0K lbs |
| 6 | Mfg Construction Products | 72.8K lbs |
| 7 | Forte Products | 64.6K lbs |
| 8 | John Deere Coffeyville Works a Div of Deere & Compan | 28.7K lbs |
| 9 | Standard Motor Products | 6.4K lbs |
| 10 | Textron Aviation/independence Facility | 554 lbs |
| 11 | St Engineering Hackney Inc | 0 lbs |
| 12 | Spears Manufacturing Co | 0 lbs |
| 13 | Sp Foundry | 0 lbs |
| 14 | Independence Ready Mix | 0 lbs |
Cities in Montgomery (4)
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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.