EPA TRI Facility · Food
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.
Independence, IA
- Total releases
- 10 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 3
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.: how the 10 lbs splits
10 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 10 lbs 100.0%
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.'s 10 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Ammonia.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Independence, IA, in the food sector. It reported 10 lbs of releases across 3 chemicals, summed over every year it filed. That ranks 18,513 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. Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. is pounds #415 and chemical-count #236 at 10 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: Bertch Cabinet LLC Legacy Div; Bertch Cabinet Manufacturing Marketplace Div; Ashley Industrial Molding; Poet Biorefining - Fairbank LLC. Similar-scale Food peers outside Iowa: Big Heart Pet Brands; Cedars Mediterranean Foods; Cedars Mediterranean Foods Inc; Cedars Mediterranean Foods. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Ammonia; Nitric acid; Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 3 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 10 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Big Heart Pet Brands and Cedars Mediterranean Foods.
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
10 lbs 29th percentile higher than 29% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. in the Food sector extract
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. reports the 1,322nd-largest volume (10 lbs). Scale peers outside Iowa include Big Heart Pet Brands and Cedars Mediterranean Foods.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 10 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 100% (10 lbs to 0 lbs).
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 100% 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: Ammonia.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10 lbs | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 lbs | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 lbs | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 lbs | 3 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonia | 10 lbs | - |
| Nitric acid | 0 lbs | - |
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 0 lbs | - |
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.
Closest other reporters in Iowa - including Bertch Cabinet LLC Legacy Div, Bertch Cabinet Manufacturing Marketplace Div, Ashley Industrial Molding, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 459 other reporting facilities in Iowa.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Iowa - e.g. Big Heart Pet Brands, Cedars Mediterranean Foods, Cedars Mediterranean Foods Inc.
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 Ammonia, Nitric acid, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); nearby reporters include Bertch Cabinet LLC Legacy Div. Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. stamps TRACE volume · AIR 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.
Use and verify this record
This Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CLEAN · lead Ammonia) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Independence, IA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 311513 · Food. 0.0% of Buchanan TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Airgas USA LLC (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Ammonia. 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