Environmental Data Access

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) collects a wide variety of data on environmental conditions and pollution sources. Environmental Data Access provides convenient public access to much of this data. Select a category below to see its list of available data searches.

• Air Quality
  Air monitoring, facility emissions, air pollutants
• Contaminated Sites
  Superfund, contaminated sites, voluntary cleanup
• Petroleum Storage Tanks
  Registered tanks, tank leaks
• Recycling and Pollution Prevention
  Recycling facilities, household hazardous waste collection
• Spatial Data
  Geospatial datasets, shapefiles
• Waste Management
  • Hazardous Waste
    Licensed generators and transporters, manifest reports
  • Solid Waste
    Disposal, landfills, management

• Water Quality
  • Groundwater
    Monitoring wells, monitoring data
  • Surface water data
    Lake and stream monitoring, condition assessments, impaired waters, restoration/protection projects, permits

• What's in My Neighborhood?
  Find a wide variety of environmental information about your community or any Minnesota locale of interest. Use text-based or map-based tools to search for information on businesses or activities regulated by the MPCA. In 2010, What's In My Neighborhood received a nationwide award from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers as the year's most impressive effort to make state government more transparent and accountable.

Related links

The following links to related Minnesota government data are provided as a service.

• Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Data Access 
• Minnesota Department. of Natural Resources Data Deli 
• Metropolitan Council Data+Maps  
• Minnesota Office of Enterprise Technology OpenData