EPA TRI Facility · Nonmetallic Mineral Product
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix
Saint Joseph, MN · Parent: Knife River Corp
- Total releases
- 280 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 3
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix: how the 280 lbs splits
280 lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 280 lbs 100.0%
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix's 280 lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
TRACE volume LAND pathway CLEAN
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Saint Joseph, MN, in the nonmetallic mineral product sector. It reported 160 lbs of releases across 3 chemicals in 2023, and 280 lbs in total across its 2020-2023 reporting years. That ranks 15,443 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. Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix is pounds #326 and chemical-count #202 at 280 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 rose against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Acp - St. Joseph; Precision Optics; Nahan Printing Inc; Cemstone - St. Cloud. Similar-scale Nonmetallic Mineral Product peers outside Minnesota: Concrete Pipe & Precast Llc-Hanover Pipe Plant; Greenhill Concrete Products Inc.; Audubon Readymix LLC DBA Quicksilver Readymix - Olathe; TRI State Brick & Tile Co Inc. Other Knife River Corp sites in this extract: Kirtland Concrete; Knife River-Madison Street; Knife River-Rice Street; Knife River Albertville Ready Mix. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Lead; Mercury.
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix stamps TRACE volume with a dominant LAND pathway (100.0% land disposal) across 3 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 280 lbs (2020–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Concrete Pipe & Precast Llc-Hanover Pipe Plant and Greenhill Concrete Products Inc..
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
280 lbs 41st percentile higher than 41% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix in the Nonmetallic Mineral Product sector extract
Among the 3,265 Nonmetallic Mineral Product facilities in this database, Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix reports the 782nd-largest volume, placing it in the top 24% of its sector. Scale peers outside Minnesota include Concrete Pipe & Precast Llc-Hanover Pipe Plant and Greenhill Concrete Products Inc..
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix's total reported releases rose from 120 lb in 2022 to 160 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix's land releases rose from 120 lb in 2022 to 160 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix Form-R facts
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See how Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix stacks up against nearby facilities and the typical reporter.
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 280 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · LAND pathway · TRI years 2020–2023
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix year-over-year reported totals. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2022 | 120 lbs | 3 |
| 2023 | 160 lbs | 3 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2020–2023). 1 of 3 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 280 lbs | - |
| Lead | 0 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Mercury | 0 lbs | - |
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix
Closest other reporters in Minnesota - including Acp - St. Joseph, Precision Optics, Nahan Printing Inc, ordered by distance.
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Similar Nonmetallic Mineral Product Facilities
Other Nonmetallic Mineral Product facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Minnesota - e.g. Concrete Pipe & Precast Llc-Hanover Pipe Plant, Greenhill Concrete Products Inc., Audubon Readymix LLC DBA Quicksilver Readymix - Olathe.
Other Knife River Corp Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Kirtland Concrete, Knife River-Madison Street, Knife River-Rice Street.
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 Acp - St. Joseph. Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix stamps TRACE 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 Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix TRI extract (TRACE · 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.
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Saint Joseph, MN, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2020–2023 (4 years). NAICS 327320 · Nonmetallic Mineral Product. 0.0% of Stearns TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Great Lakes Polymer Technologies LLC (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Knife River St. Joseph Ready Mix stamps TRACE 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