EPA TRI Facility · Nonmetallic Mineral Product
Cemstone - Columbus
Forest Lake, MN · Parent: Cemstone Products Co
- Total releases
- 113 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 3
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Cemstone - Columbus: how the 113 lbs splits
113 lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 103 lbs 91.4%
- Air Releases 10 lbs 8.6%
Cemstone - Columbus's 113 lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 91.4% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 8.6%. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
TRACE volume LAND pathway CARC-LEAN
Cemstone - Columbus is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Forest Lake, MN, in the nonmetallic mineral product sector. It reported 0 lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2023, and 113 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 16,416 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. Cemstone - Columbus is pounds #353 and chemical-count #208 at 113 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). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Knife River Corp N Central Forest Lake; Inliner Solutions LLC; Aveda Corp; Plasti Dip International. Similar-scale Nonmetallic Mineral Product peers outside Minnesota: Crm - River Falls; Certainteed Gypsum Carrollton LLC; Central Iowa Ready Mix Shenandoah; Hanson Aggregates LLC - Sacaton. Other Cemstone Products Co sites in this extract: Cemstone - Minneapolis; Cemstone - Rosemount Umore; Cemstone - Burnsville; Cemstone - Midway. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Lead; Mercury.
Cemstone - Columbus stamps TRACE volume with a dominant LAND pathway (91.4% land disposal) across 3 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 113 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Crm - River Falls and Certainteed Gypsum Carrollton LLC.
Cemstone - Columbus vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
113 lbs 37th percentile higher than 37% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Cemstone - Columbus in the Nonmetallic Mineral Product sector extract
Among the 3,265 Nonmetallic Mineral Product facilities in this database, Cemstone - Columbus reports the 881st-largest volume (113 lbs). Scale peers outside Minnesota include Crm - River Falls and Certainteed Gypsum Carrollton LLC.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Cemstone - Columbus Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Cemstone - Columbus releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 113 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 100% (108 lbs to 0 lbs).
Cemstone - Columbus: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · LAND pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Cemstone - Columbus 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: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 108 lbs | 2 |
| 2020 | 5 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 lbs | 2 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). 1 of 3 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 103 lbs | - |
| Lead | 10 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Mercury | 0 lbs | - |
Cemstone - Columbus · LAND-pathway site
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Other Cemstone Products Co Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Cemstone - Minneapolis, Cemstone - Rosemount Umore, Cemstone - Burnsville.
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), Lead, Mercury; nearby reporters include Knife River Corp N Central Forest Lake. Cemstone - Columbus stamps TRACE volume · LAND pathway · CARC-LEAN 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 Cemstone - Columbus TRI extract (TRACE · LAND · CARC-LEAN · 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.
Cemstone - Columbus totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Forest Lake, MN, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 327320 · Nonmetallic Mineral Product. 0.0% of Anoka TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Gulbrandsen Inc. (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Cemstone - Columbus stamps TRACE volume · LAND pathway · CARC-LEAN · 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