EPA TRI Facility · Food
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc
Peoria, IL · Parent: Prairie Farms Dairy Inc
- Total releases
- 6.3K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2019
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc: how the 6.3K lbs splits
6.3K lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 6.0K lbs 95.2%
- Off-site Transfers 305 lbs 4.8%
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc's 6.3K lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 95.2% of the bar. Next segment: off-site transfers at 4.8%. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitric acid.
LIGHT volume LAND pathway CLEAN
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Peoria, IL, in the food sector. It reported 6.3K lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2019. That ranks 10,745 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Illinois's 951 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Prairie Farms Dairy Inc is pounds #470 and chemical-count #589 at 6.3K lbs. Prairie State Generating Co leads reported pounds (37.9M lbs) at 31 chemicals (chemical-count #8). Veolia N.a. Inc. leads chemical count at 141 chemicals (1.9M lbs, pounds #34). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Cast Technologies Inc; Biourja Renewables LLC; Vcna Prairie LLC - Yard 1028; Komatsu America Corp. Similar-scale Food peers outside Illinois: Dairy Farmers of America Inc. Schulenburg; Tyson Poultry Inc; Alamo Dynamic LLC DBA Dynamic Foods; Lala Branded Products LLC. Other Prairie Farms Dairy Inc sites in this extract: Prairie Farms Dairy Inc; Prairie Farms Dairy Inc; Prairie Farms-Rockford; Hiland Dairy Foods Co. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitric acid; Peracetic acid.
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant LAND pathway (95.2% land disposal) across 2 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 6.3K lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Dairy Farmers of America Inc. Schulenburg and Tyson Poultry Inc.
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
6.3K lbs Top 41% higher than 59% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc: Nitric acid-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Prairie Farms Dairy Inc reports the 1,003rd-largest volume (6.3K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Nitric acid alone is 90.3% of the total. Scale peers outside Illinois include Dairy Farmers of America Inc. Schulenburg and Tyson Poultry Inc.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Prairie Farms Dairy Inc's pounds in one chemical - here Nitric acid at 90.3%. Not a toxicity score.
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Prairie Farms Dairy Inc releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 6.3K lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitric acid | 5.7K lbs | - |
| Peracetic acid | 610 lbs | - |
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Prairie Farms Dairy Inc
Closest other reporters in Illinois - including Cast Technologies Inc, Biourja Renewables LLC, Vcna Prairie LLC - Yard 1028, ordered by distance.
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Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Illinois - e.g. Dairy Farmers of America Inc. Schulenburg, Tyson Poultry Inc, Alamo Dynamic LLC DBA Dynamic Foods.
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Prairie Farms Dairy Inc on cumulative reported pounds (6.3K lbs) and distinct chemical count (2). Release-pound peers include Engineered Materials Solutions LLC, Coatex Inc, Mitsui Kinzoku Catalysts America Inc. Chemical-count peers include Idi Caribe Inc, Suiza Dairy Corp, Edwards Lifesciences Technology Sarl. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
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Similar chemical count
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Other Prairie Farms Dairy Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Prairie Farms Dairy Inc, Prairie Farms Dairy Inc, Prairie Farms-Rockford.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Nitric acid, Peracetic acid; nearby reporters include Cast Technologies Inc. Prairie Farms Dairy Inc stamps LIGHT volume · LAND pathway · CLEAN carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
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This Prairie Farms Dairy Inc TRI extract (LIGHT · LAND · CLEAN · lead Nitric acid) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Peoria, IL, latest year 2019. NAICS 311511 · Food. 0.0% of Peoria TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Engineered Materials Solutions LLC (Δ 3 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Prairie Farms Dairy Inc stamps LIGHT volume · LAND pathway · CLEAN · lead Nitric acid. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov