EPA TRI Facility · Food
Bongards' Creameries Perham
Perham, MN · Parent: Bongards' Creameries
- Total releases
- 264.8K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Bongards' Creameries Perham: how the 264.8K lbs splits
264.8K lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 263.8K lbs 99.6%
- Air Releases 561 lbs 0.2%
- Off-site Transfers 397 lbs 0.1%
Bongards' Creameries Perham's 264.8K lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 99.6% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 0.2%. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
MID volume LAND pathway CLEAN
Bongards' Creameries Perham is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Perham, MN, in the food sector. It reported 51.8K lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2023, and 264.8K lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 2,777 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Minnesota's 459 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Bongards' Creameries Perham is pounds #53 and chemical-count #227 at 264.8K lbs. Xcel Energy Sherburne County Generating Plant leads reported pounds (21.5M lbs) at 24 chemicals (chemical-count #4). 3M Chemical Operations' Cottage Grove Facility leads chemical count at 72 chemicals (3.0M lbs, pounds #8). Reported volume fell against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co; Master Composites Inc; Btd Manufacturing Inc; S J Electro Systems Inc. Similar-scale Food peers outside Minnesota: Fieldale Farms Cornelia Complex; Farmer's Pride Inc; Mar-Jac Poultry Ms LLC; Aarhuskarlshamn Aak. Other Bongards' Creameries sites in this extract: Bongards' South LLC. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Nitric acid.
Bongards' Creameries Perham stamps MID volume with a dominant LAND pathway (99.6% land disposal) across 2 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 264.8K lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Fieldale Farms Cornelia Complex and Farmer's Pride Inc.
Bongards' Creameries Perham vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
265K lbs Top 11% higher than 89% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Bongards' Creameries Perham inside Otter Tail's TRI pounds
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Bongards' Creameries Perham reports the 333rd-largest volume, placing it in the top 16.8% of its sector. This one site accounts for 43.5% of every pound reported in Otter Tail. Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) alone is 99.8% of the total. Scale peers outside Minnesota include Fieldale Farms Cornelia Complex and Farmer's Pride Inc.
County-dominant here means ≥25% of Otter Tail's reported pounds (609.0K lbs county total). Shares only print when the site reports ≥1,000 lbs.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Bongards' Creameries Perham's total reported releases fell from 79.2 thousand lb in 2022 to 51.8 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bongards' Creameries Perham's off-site transfers rose from 0 lb in 2022 to 207 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Bongards' Creameries Perham's land releases fell from 79.1 thousand lb in 2022 to 51.5 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Bongards' Creameries Perham Form-R facts
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2.0× more than the comparison
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Bongards' Creameries Perham releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 264.8K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases increased by 27% (40.9K lbs to 51.8K lbs).
Bongards' Creameries Perham: annual Form-R pounds
MID site · LAND pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Bongards' Creameries Perham year-over-year reported totals (increased by 27% 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: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40.9K lbs | 2 |
| 2020 | 35.0K lbs | 2 |
| 2021 | 57.8K lbs | 2 |
| 2022 | 79.2K lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 51.8K lbs | 2 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 264.2K lbs | - |
| Nitric acid | 561 lbs | - |
Bongards' Creameries Perham · LAND-pathway site
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Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Minnesota - e.g. Fieldale Farms Cornelia Complex, Farmer's Pride Inc, Mar-Jac Poultry Ms LLC.
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Bongards' Creameries Perham on cumulative reported pounds (264.8K lbs) and distinct chemical count (2). Release-pound peers include Jupiter Bach N.a., Kaneka North America LLC, Fieldale Farms Cornelia Complex. 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.
Similar reported release pounds
Nearest out-of-state reporters (≥1,000 lbs) by absolute TRI pounds, not same-industry or same-county neighbors.
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Bongards' Creameries Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Bongards' South LLC.
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 Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Nitric acid; nearby reporters include Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co. Bongards' Creameries Perham stamps MID 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.
Use and verify this record
This Bongards' Creameries Perham TRI extract (MID · LAND · CLEAN · lead Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Bongards' Creameries Perham totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Perham, MN, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 311513 · Food. 43.5% of Otter Tail TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Jupiter Bach N.a. (Δ 20 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Bongards' Creameries Perham stamps MID volume · LAND pathway · CLEAN · lead Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution). 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