Douglas County, KS
The federal environmental record for Douglas County (population 120,553): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
3
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
28
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Douglas 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.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE, CITY OF KS2004503 | PFBA: 11 ng/L PFHxS: 4.2 ng/L | detected |
| DOUGLAS CO RWD 3 KS2004507 | PFHxS: 3.3 ng/L PFBS: 3 ng/L | detected |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS KS2004513 | PFBA: 6 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
9 facilities in Douglas filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 108k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE ENERGY CENTER | LAWRENCE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Hydrogen fluoride | 105k lb |
| O.A. BOTH CORP DBA SCHLENK METALLIC PIGMENTS | LAWRENCE | Toluene | 1k lb |
| SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORP LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGY CENTER | LAWRENCE | Lead And Lead Compounds, Zinc compounds | 815 lb |
| PROSOCO INC | LAWRENCE | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 500 lb |
| POST CONSUMER BRANDS | LAWRENCE | Zinc compounds | 32 lb |
| PLANT #20 | LAWRENCE | Lead | 2 lb |
| ICL | LAWRENCE | - | 0 lb |
| ADLER PELZER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. | EUDORA | - | 0 lb |
| TRECORA SPECIALTIES CHEMICAL LLC | LAWRENCE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 199 tank facilities in Douglas: 109 tanks in service and 444 closed. 271 fuel releases are on record, of which 28 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Douglas as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 4 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Douglas, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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