Hendry County, FL
The federal environmental record for Hendry County (population 43,333): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
33
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hendry reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
4 facilities in Hendry filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 788k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| US SUGAR CORP-CLEWISTON SUGAR HOUSE | CLEWISTON | Ammonia, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 788k lb |
| AUSTIN POWDER CO | LABELLE | - | 0 lb |
| CEMEX LABELLE | LABELLE | - | 0 lb |
| PREFERRED-LABELLE BLOCK | LABELLE | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 113 tank facilities in Hendry: 64 tanks in service and 354 closed. 98 fuel releases are on record, of which 33 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hendry as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
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