Facility detail

POET BIOREFINING-GOWRIE LLC

1562 320TH ST, GOWRIE, IA, 50543

Parent company: POET LLC

Carcinogen — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Acetaldehyde n-Hexane Formic acid Acrolein Methanol Total (lbs)
2024 7,560 3,014 — 2,110 — 12,684
2023 7,440 3,022 — 3,130 — 13,592
2022 8,060 2,728 — 2,940 — 13,815
2021 10,791 389 — 3,099 3,942 19,710
2020 2,907 4,014 — 1,800 — 9,929
2019 3,508 3,615 — 1,901 — 10,236
2018 2,507 4,213 12,000 1,601 1,302 21,623
2017 3,008 4,313 13,000 1,101 — 21,422
2016 3,508 4,014 13,000 981 862 23,577
2015 4,189 3,516 — 1,349 775 10,972
2014 2,639 3,551 — 1,355 1,365 9,976
2013 1,828 3,132 — 1,376 1,382 8,793
2012 2,342 3,151 — 1,358 1,364 9,269
2011 1,351 3,517 — — — 4,868
2010 1,730 3,281 — — — 5,011
2009 1,473 3,057 — — — 4,530
2008 1,751 3,105 — — — 4,856

▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.