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St. Regis Paper Co.

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: Pentachlorophenol.

2Nd Street South & Central Avenue, Cass Lake, Minnesota · ZIP 56633 · EPA ID MND057597940

CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
PentachlorophenolHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen; wood preservative; persistent in soil and groundwater. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater3
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Pahs)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater3
Chlorinated Dioxins And FuransGroundwater2
Dioxins (Chlorinated Dibenzodioxins)Groundwater2
MetalsGroundwater2
PhenolHealth riskCorrosive on contact; absorbed through skin; high exposure damages kidneys, liver, and the central nervous system. (NIOSH)Groundwater2
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Debris1
Benzo[A]Pyrene Equivalents (Bapeq)Health riskPAH; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; the prototypical PAH used to benchmark PAH-mixture cancer risk. EPA MCL 0.2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Debris1
Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Cpah)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
Chlorinated Dioxins And FuransSoil1
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Pahs)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Debris1
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Pahs)Health riskPAH class includes IARC Group 1 carcinogens (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene); long-term exposure raises cancer risk. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 8 systems below draw on groundwater (or mixed sources) and serve communities whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Distance is to the served-city centroid — SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations, so this is a proximity screen, not a wellhead-impact assessment.

Water systemServesDistancePopulation servedSourceStatus
Ball Club TribalCass Lake0.4 mi333GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Bena TribalCass Lake0.4 mi112GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Inger TribalCass Lake0.4 mi186GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Plantation TribalCass Lake0.4 mi105GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Oak Point TribalCass Lake0.4 mi45GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Old Agency TribalCass Lake0.4 mi30GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Northside TribalCass Lake0.4 mi2,086GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Cass Lake MunicipalCass Lake0.4 mi691GROUNDWATERIn compliance

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Cass County, Minnesota (no Census block groups within 1 mile and no host city — falling back to containing county): a population of 30,288. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
12.2%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
19.4%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
5.6%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
26.4%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year) + USEPA-clone EJ blockgroup stats (raw indicators + EJ disparity mirror). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.