Montrose, CO
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 Montrose in Colorado · Population: 43,272
Montrose, CO is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 1 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility, 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 1.3K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 12 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 (20)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| TRI COUNTY WCD | 20,490 | 0 |
| MENOKEN WD | 4,500 | 0 |
| CHIPETA WD | 3,802 | 0 |
| OLATHE TOWN OF | 3,015 | 0 |
| DALLAS CREEK WC | 1,059 | 0 |
| NUCLA TOWN OF | 875 | 2 |
| NATURITA TOWN OF | 585 | 13 |
| CRAWFORD MESA WA | 486 | 1 |
| CRAWFORD TOWN OF | 477 | 0 |
| DEUTSCH DOMESTIC WATER | 246 | 4 |
| CATHEDRAL WC | 200 | 11 |
| PARADOX PIPELINE CO | 200 | 42 |
| ELEGANT HILLS MHP | 170 | 2 |
| SPRING VIEW TP | 145 | 1 |
| MILLARD MOBILE HOME PARK | 90 | 3 |
| SUNRISE TRAILER PARK | 60 | 1 |
| MAD DOG WC | 60 | 12 |
| EARLES SUBDIVISION WC | 40 | 0 |
| HARVEY MARTINEZ TRAILER COURT | 25 | 0 |
| MUSTANG WATER AUTHORITY | 0 | 15 |
TRI Facilities (1)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tri-State Generation & Transmission-Nucla Station | 1.3K lbs |
Cities in Montrose (2)
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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.