The data contained in this database is not of survey quality and therefore is not sufficient in and of itself to meet the requirements of determining environmental risks associated with a property, but it does provide the user with the name and locations of known and potential soil and groundwater contamination sites in a given area. It can serve as a good starting point when completing an environmental search/history of a given area.
Sites should be accurate to within 640 acres.
Delisted State Superfund Sites, or Delisted Permanent List of Priorities (DPLP) sites are those that have been removed from the state Superfund priority list because they have been cleaned up, pose no further risk to public health or the environment, or have been transferred to a more appropriate cleanup program. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Permitted Solid Waste (SW) sites include facilities that manage solid waste (household or business garbage). Among the types of facilities included are landfills, transfer stations, demolition landfills, composting facilities and solid-waste incinerators.
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Unpermitted Dump Sites. The list of Unpermitted Dump Sites was created in the 1980's and was originally called the Open Dump Inventory (ODI). Sites maintained in this list were later referred to as Outstate Dump Inventory (ODI) and Metro Dump Inventory (MDI) sites. Because these sites are no longer open the name has been changed to Unpermitted Dump Sites and contains dump sites for the entire state. Included in the list are abandoned dumps, demolition sites, tree disposal sites, industrial dumps and other dumps. Most of these sites existed prior to the creation of the MPCA in 1967, and detailed information about them is not generally available. When these sites are investigated and found to present a risk to human health or the environment, they are moved into the appropriate cleanup program.
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NFRAP, or "No Further Remedial Action Planned" sites, are the sites that have been removed from the CERCLIS list by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These sites are no longer considered a federal concern, and most are also a low priority for the State.
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State Superfund sites, also referred to as Permanent List of Priorities (PLP) sites, are those the state intends to investigate and cleanup under the Minnesota Superfund Program. Known or suspected environmental contamination threatens public health, welfare or the environment at PLP sites.These sites include those addressed by the MPCA, as well as sites with agricultural chemical contamination which are addressed by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
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CERCLIS Sites. Suspected hazardous waste sites throughout the United States are listed in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System, or CERCLIS. This federal database, contains information on preliminary assessments, potential and actual hazardous waste sites, site inspections, and cleanup activities.
CERCLIS sites are candidates for addition to the federal and state Superfund lists. The database is updated periodically as new sites are discovered.
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Federal Superfund sites, also referred to as National Priority List (NPL) sites, are those considered high priority for cleanup under the federal Superfund program. These are sites where known or suspected environmental contamination threatens public health or the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updates the NPL once a year.
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State Closed Landfill Program (CLP) sites are closed muncipal waste landfills that were formerly permitted by the state. After a binding agreement is negotiated between the MPCA and the site owner/operator, the state takes responsibility for monitoring and cleanup systems providing long-term care.
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Voluntary Investigation & Cleanup Sites. The Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup (VIC) Program allows buyers, sellers, developers or local governments to voluntarily investigate and, if necessary, clean up contaminated land to facilitate its sale, financing or redevelopment. Voluntary parties that complete investigation and/or cleanup activities under MPCA oversight can receive liability assurances that protect them from future Superfund liability.
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RCRA TSD (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Treatment, Storage and Disposal) facilities are those permitted to treat, store and dispose of hazardous wastes. These facilities typically collect hazardous wastes for other businesses and treat or dispose of it properly.
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RCRA_Gen or RCRA Investigation/Cleanup sites are sites where RCRA hazardous waste generators had an actual or potential release requiring investigation and/or cleanup. These generators fall into the very small, small and large quantity generator classes.
Location Information:
Name of site: This could be a company name, or an owners name. It is the identifier for the site as the MPCA knows it.
Address: Whenever possible the address is the actual address for the site. If the address is unknown a physical location may be provided instead such as the intersection it is located at, or the PLS information for the property.
City: The city refers to the actual city the site is located in. If the site is not in a city the nearest city was used, or the city used by the US Postal Office. Occassionally a township is used.
Zipcode: This is the zipcode area the actual site is located in. It is verified with the Geographic Data Technologies (GDT) streets data for Minnesota.
County: This is the county that the actual site is located in. It may appear with a county code versus the name. The codes and correlating county name follow: 1 - Aitkin, 2 - Anoka, 3 - Becker, 4 - Beltrami, 5 - Benton, 6 - Big Stone, 7 - Blue Earth, 8 - Brown, 9 - Carlton, 10 - Carver, 11 - Cass, 12 - Chippewa, 13 - Chisago, 14 - Clay, 15 - Clearwater, 16 - Cook, 17 - Cottonwood, 18 - Crow Wing, 19 - Dakota, 20 - Dodge, 21 - Douglas, 22 - Faribault, 23 - Fillmore, 24 - Freeborn, 25 - Goodhue, 26 - Grant, 27 - Hennepin, 28 - Houston, 29 - Hubbard, 30 - Isanti, 31 - Itasca, 32, Jackson, 33 - Kanabec, 34 - Kandiyohi, 35 - Kittson, 36 - Koochiching, 37 - Lac Qui Parle, 38 - Lake, 39 - Lake of the Woods, 40 - Le Sueur, 41 - Lincoln, 42 - Lyon, 43 - McLeod, 44 - Mahnomen, 45 - Marshall, 46 - Martin, 47 - Meeker, 48 - Mille Lacs, 49 - Morrison, 50 - Mower, 51 - Murray, 52 - Nicollet, 53 - Nobles, 54 - Norman, 55 - Olmsted, 56 - Ottertail, 57 - Pennington, 58 - Pine, 59 - Pipestone, 60 - Polk, 61 - Pope, 62 - Ramsey, 63 - Red Lake, 64 - Redwood, 65 - Renville, 66 - Rice, 67 - Rock, 68 - Roseau, 69 - St. Louis, 70 - Scott, 71 - Sherburne, 72 - Sibley, 73 - Stearns, 74 - Steele, 75 - Stevens, 76 - Swift, 77 - Todd, 78 - Traverse, 79 - Wabasha, 80 - Wadena, 81 - Waseca, 82 - Washington, 83 - Watonwan, 84 - Wilkin, 85 - Winona, 86 - Wright, 87 - Yellow Medicine.
Link ID: This is a number that is computer generated when the site is added to the Master Entity System database.
For more information about Permitted Solid Waste Sites, call the MPCA at 218-846-0470.
For more information about Unpermitted Dumps, contact the MPCA at 651-297-5177, or toll-free at 1- 800-657-3864.
For more information about No Further Remedial Action Planned sites, contact the MPCA at 651-296-6139, or toll-free at 800-657-3864.
For more information about State Superfund sites, visit the MPCA Superfund Program page at <http://www.pca.state.mn.us/programs/superf_p.html>. Or, contact the MPCA at 651-296-6139, or toll-free at 800-657-3864.
For more information about Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System Sites, contact the MPCA at 651-296-6139, or toll-free at 800-657-3864.
For more information about Federal Superfund sites, visit the MPCA Superfund Program page at <http://www.pca.state.mn.us/programs/superf_p.html>. Or contact the MPCA at 651-296-6139, or toll-free at 800-657-3864.
For more information on State Closed landfill Program sites, visit the CLP page at <http://www.pca.state.mn.us/programs/landfill_p.html>. Or contact the following MPCA staff:
Metro Locations: Ron Schwartz 651-297-2915 or Jean Hanson 651-296-7390 South Locations: Don Abrams 651-296-9543 or John Moeger 651-282-2383 North Locations: Larry Olson 218-846-0466 or Travis Peterson 218-828-6069
For more information about Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup Sites, visit the VIC Program page at <http://www.pca.state.mn.us/cleanup/vic.html>. Or, contact the MPCA VIC Program at 651-296-7212.
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) is a federal law. More information about it is available on the U.S. EPA's RCRA Orientation Manual Web page at www.epa.gov/epaoswer/general/orientat/.
For more information about generator sizes, and hazardous waste rules and regulations, check out the waste-related publications on the MPCA Web site at www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/pubs/business.html.
The State of Minnesota, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and employees assume no responsibility or liability to any person or entity for the use of this information. Any use of this information is made at the risk of the user.
To use these files to create maps or to perform geographic functions you will need Geographic Information System (GIS) computer software. You will also need all of the files included in the zipped file which are: Sites.dbf - Size = 1.49 MB. This file contains the attribute data for the sites. (site name, address, city, zipcode, county, legislative district, congressional district and an indication of what type of site it is such as Unpermitted Dump Site. Sites.shp - Size = 132 KB. This file displays the physical location for each site. A site symbol marker represents the center of each site. The following files all support the shapefile and are essential for viewing these sites in GIS: Sites.shx - Size = 40 KB, Sites.sbx - Size 4 KB and Sites.sbn - Size = 52 KB The final folder in the zipped file is the metadata which will provide valuable information about the data, the source, projection, accuracy and contact person for example.
If you would just like the list of MES sites to be used in a spreadsheet (or tabular) format you would only need sites.dbf.