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Okeechobee County, FL

The federal environmental record for Okeechobee County (population 41,427): 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

1

PFAS-detecting water systems

2

TRI facilities

60

open tank releases

Drinking water: PFAS testing

Public water systems serving Okeechobee with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.

SystemHighest resultsReading
OKEECHOBEE UTILITY AUTHORITY

FL4470257

PFBA: 11 ng/L

PFPeA: 7.8 ng/L

PFHxA: 6.5 ng/L

detected

On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)

2 facilities in Okeechobee filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 84 lb released.

FacilityCityTop chemicalsTotal released
WESTLAKE ROYAL ROOFING - OKEECHOBEEOKEECHOBEELead84 lb
DIAMOND R FERTILIZER CO INCOKEECHOBEE-0 lb

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 161 tank facilities in Okeechobee: 62 tanks in service and 434 closed. 183 fuel releases are on record, of which 60 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Okeechobee 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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