Otter Tail, MN
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 Otter Tail in Minnesota · Population: 60,281
Otter Tail, MN is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 9 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 16 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 34/100 (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 609.0K 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 (16)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| Fergus Falls | 14,194 | 0 |
| Perham | 3,421 | 0 |
| Pelican Rapids | 2,577 | 0 |
| New York Mills | 1,287 | 0 |
| Parkers Prairie | 1,023 | 0 |
| Battle Lake | 918 | 0 |
| Henning | 851 | 0 |
| Ottertail | 694 | 0 |
| Underwood | 380 | 0 |
| Vergas | 358 | 0 |
| Deer Creek | 329 | 0 |
| Hewitt | 255 | 0 |
| Dalton | 209 | 1 |
| Stony Bar Association | 40 | 0 |
| Battle Lake Mobile Home Park | 31 | 5 |
| River and Woods Mobile Home Park | 25 | 37 |
TRI Facilities (9)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bongards' Creameries Perham | 264.8K lbs |
| 2 | Otter Tail Power Co Hoot Lake Plant | 207.9K lbs |
| 3 | Green Plains Otter Tail LLC | 104.6K lbs |
| 4 | Master Composites Inc | 22.4K lbs |
| 5 | Quality Circuits Inc | 9.3K lbs |
| 6 | Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co | 50 lbs |
| 7 | Jennie-O Turkey Store - Henning Feed Mill | 0 lbs |
| 8 | Brunswick New York Mills Operations | 0 lbs |
| 9 | Jennie-O Turkey Store Inc - Perham Feed Mill | 0 lbs |
Cities in Otter Tail (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.