Colorado Toxic Release Inventory 2020: Facility-Level Chemical Reporting

The Colorado Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) 2020 dataset contains facility-level reports on the release and waste management of over 800 toxic chemicals. It is published by data.colorado.gov and was last updated on 2026-05-29. The data includes facility names, addresses, industry sectors, and parent company information.

Use Cases

• Geospatial mapping of potential pollution sources using LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, and FACILITYNAME.
• Analyzing industry sector trends in chemical releases using INDUSTRYSECTOR, INDUSTRYSECTORCODE, and PRIMARYNAICS.
• Identifying corporate ownership of reporting facilities using PARENTCONAME and STANDARDPARENTCONAME.
• Filtering for federal facilities or tribal lands using FEDERALFACILITY, BIA, and TRIBE columns.

Strengths

• Includes precise geospatial coordinates (LATITUDE, LONGITUDE) for mapping.
• Contains detailed facility and corporate identifiers such as TRIFD, FRSID, and PARENTCODBNUM.
• Covers multiple industry classification systems with SIC and NAICS code columns.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.colorado.gov

Collection Method

Annual mandatory reporting by facilities in certain industries as per the Toxics Release Inventory program.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 11:08:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colorado, United States