EPA TRI Facility · Electric Utilities
Presque Isle Power Plant
Marquette, MI · Parent: Wec Energy Group
- Total releases
- 13.6K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 7
- Carcinogens
- 2
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Presque Isle Power Plant: how the 13.6K lbs splits
13.6K lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 11.0K lbs 80.5%
- Air Releases 2.6K lbs 19.4%
- Water Discharges 13 lbs 0.1%
Presque Isle Power Plant's 13.6K lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 80.5% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 19.4%. Leading chemical by pounds: Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)).
LIGHT volume LAND pathway TRACE-CARC
Presque Isle Power Plant is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Marquette, MI, in the electric utilities sector. It reported 13.6K lbs of releases across 7 chemicals in 2019. That ranks 9,123 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Michigan's 791 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Presque Isle Power Plant is pounds #345 and chemical-count #131 at 13.6K lbs. Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp Dearborn Works leads reported pounds (53.0M lbs) at 17 chemicals (chemical-count #27). Eq Detroit Inc leads chemical count at 71 chemicals (14.0M lbs, pounds #5). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Dyno Nobel Inc; Potlatchdeltic Land & Lumber Llc.; Eagle Mine Llc-Humboldt Mill; Eagle Mine. Similar-scale Electric Utilities peers outside Michigan: Garrison Energy Center; Kearny Generating Station; Commonwealth Utilities Corp (cuc); Pinelawn Power. Other Wec Energy Group sites in this extract: Weston Power Plant; Oak Creek Site; Whitewater Generating Station. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)); Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size); Lead compounds; Mercury And Mercury Compounds.
Presque Isle Power Plant stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant LAND pathway (80.5% land disposal) across 7 chemicals · 2 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 13.6K lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Garrison Energy Center and Kearny Generating Station.
Presque Isle Power Plant vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
14K lbs Top 35% higher than 65% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Presque Isle Power Plant: Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))-led volume
Among the 513 Electric Utilities facilities in this database, Presque Isle Power Plant reports the 379th-largest volume (13.6K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) alone is 85.6% of the total. Scale peers outside Michigan include Garrison Energy Center and Kearny Generating Station.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Presque Isle Power Plant's pounds in one chemical - here Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) at 85.6%. Not a toxicity score.
Presque Isle Power Plant Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Presque Isle Power Plant releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 13.6K lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). 2 of 7 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 11.6K lbs | - |
| Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 1.9K lbs | - |
| Lead compounds | 32 lbs | - |
| Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 29 lbs | - |
| Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds | 0 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lbs | - |
Presque Isle Power Plant · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Presque Isle Power Plant
Closest other reporters in Michigan - including Dyno Nobel Inc, Potlatchdeltic Land & Lumber Llc., Eagle Mine Llc-Humboldt Mill, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 790 other reporting facilities in Michigan.
Similar Electric Utilities Facilities
Other Electric Utilities facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Michigan - e.g. Garrison Energy Center, Kearny Generating Station, Commonwealth Utilities Corp (cuc).
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Presque Isle Power Plant on cumulative reported pounds (13.6K lbs) and distinct chemical count (7). Release-pound peers include Van Norman Molding Co, Confluent Medical Technologies, Tex Ok Kan Oil Field Services LLC. Chemical-count peers include Hubbell Caribe Ltd, Celanese Microcircuits Industries Ltd., Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
Similar reported release pounds
Nearest out-of-state reporters (≥1,000 lbs) by absolute TRI pounds, not same-industry or same-county neighbors.
- Van Norman Molding Co Bridgeview, IL · Plastics and Rubber 13.6K lbs reported
- Confluent Medical Technologies Fremont, CA · Fabricated Metals 13.6K lbs reported
- Tex Ok Kan Oil Field Services LLC Garden City, KS · Fabricated Metals 13.6K lbs reported
- O&k American Corp. Seymour, IN · Primary Metals 13.6K lbs reported
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Wec Energy Group Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Weston Power Plant, Oak Creek Site, Whitewater Generating Station.
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 Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead compounds, Mercury And Mercury Compounds; nearby reporters include Dyno Nobel Inc. Presque Isle Power Plant stamps LIGHT volume · LAND pathway · TRACE-CARC 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 Presque Isle Power Plant TRI extract (LIGHT · LAND · TRACE-CARC · lead Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Presque Isle Power Plant totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Marquette, MI, latest year 2019. NAICS 221112 · Electric Utilities. 0.0% of Marquette TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Van Norman Molding Co (Δ 4 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Presque Isle Power Plant stamps LIGHT volume · LAND pathway · TRACE-CARC · lead Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)). 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