Story, IA
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 Story in Iowa · Population: 98,592
Story, IA is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 11 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 13 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 27/100 (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 152.0K 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 (13)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| AMES WATER TREATMENT PLANT | 55,177 | 0 |
| NEVADA WATER SUPPLY | 6,925 | 0 |
| HUXLEY WATERWORKS DEPT | 4,244 | 0 |
| STORY CITY WATER DEPT | 3,357 | 0 |
| ROLAND WATER SUPPLY | 1,394 | 0 |
| GILBERT WATER SUPPLY | 1,211 | 0 |
| COLO WATER SUPPLY | 853 | 0 |
| CAMBRIDGE WATER SUPPLY | 832 | 0 |
| ZEARING WATER DEPARTMENT | 528 | 3 |
| COLLINS WATER SUPPLY | 505 | 0 |
| KELLEY WATER SUPPLY | 304 | 0 |
| LOGANSPORT WATER SYSTEM | 190 | 0 |
| BENEFIT WATER DISTRICT #2 | 100 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (11)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lincolnway Energy LLC | 88.1K lbs |
| 2 | 3M (minnesota Mining & Mfg Co) - Ames | 31.4K lbs |
| 3 | Colorbiotics LLC | 16.5K lbs |
| 4 | American Packaging Corp | 6.0K lbs |
| 5 | Air Products & Chemicals Inc. CO2 Recovery Plant | 5.2K lbs |
| 6 | Iowa State Ready Mix | 3.6K lbs |
| 7 | Burke Corp | 1.1K lbs |
| 8 | Hach Co | 73 lbs |
| 9 | Danfoss Power Solutions (us) Co | 57 lbs |
| 10 | Dsm Nutritional Products LLC | 42 lbs |
| 11 | Basf Corp | 0 lbs |
Cities in Story (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.