EPA TRI Facility · Primary Metals
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry
Boone, IA
- Total releases
- 36 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 4
- Carcinogens
- 2
- Primary pathway
- Water Discharges
WATER Form-R mix
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry: how the 36 lbs splits
36 lbs across all reported pathways
- Water Discharges 36 lbs 100.0%
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry's 36 lbs Form-R total is WATER - water discharges is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Chromium.
TRACE volume WATER pathway CARC-HEAVY
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Boone, IA, in the primary metals sector. It reported 3 lbs of releases across 3 chemicals in 2023, and 36 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 17,513 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Iowa's 460 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry is pounds #395 and chemical-count #174 at 36 lbs. Climax Molybdenum Co leads reported pounds (16.4M lbs) at 5 chemicals (chemical-count #117). Helena Industries LLC leads chemical count at 32 chemicals (9.4K lbs, pounds #247). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Leviat; Central Iowa Ready Mix; Iowa State Ready Mix; Colorbiotics LLC. Similar-scale Primary Metals peers outside Iowa: Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products LLC; Benda Tool & Model Works; Kansas Castings; Hydro Extrusion USA LLC. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Chromium; Nickel; Lead; Manganese.
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry stamps TRACE volume with a dominant WATER pathway (100.0% water discharges) across 4 chemicals · 2 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 36 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products LLC and Benda Tool & Model Works.
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
36 lbs 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry in the Primary Metals sector extract
Among the 1,603 Primary Metals facilities in this database, Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry reports the 1,275th-largest volume (36 lbs). Scale peers outside Iowa include Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products LLC and Benda Tool & Model Works.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 36 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 81% (16 lbs to 3 lbs).
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · WATER pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 81% from 2019 to 2023). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Chromium.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 16 lbs | 4 |
| 2020 | 11 lbs | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 lbs | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 lbs | 3 |
| 2023 | 3 lbs | 3 |
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry · WATER-pathway site
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Closest other reporters in Iowa - including Leviat, Central Iowa Ready Mix, Iowa State Ready Mix, ordered by distance.
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Similar Primary Metals Facilities
Other Primary Metals facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Iowa - e.g. Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products LLC, Benda Tool & Model Works, Kansas Castings.
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 Chromium, Nickel, Lead, Manganese; nearby reporters include Leviat. Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry stamps TRACE volume · WATER pathway · CARC-HEAVY 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 Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry TRI extract (TRACE · WATER · CARC-HEAVY · lead Chromium) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Boone, IA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 331511 · Primary Metals. 0.2% of Boone TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Central Iowa Ready Mix Mt. Ayr (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Besser Quinn Machine & Foundry stamps TRACE volume · WATER pathway · CARC-HEAVY · lead Chromium. 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