Payne County, OK
The federal environmental record for Payne County (population 83,352): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
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federal cleanup sites
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PFAS-detecting water systems
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TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson Refinery | Cushing | on the NPL | 07/22/1999 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Payne 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 |
|---|---|---|
| STILLWATER WATER PLANT OK1021220 | PFOS: 8.6 ng/L PFHxS: 6.4 ng/L PFHxA: 4.9 ng/L | above final limit |
| OSU WATER PLANT OK1020910 | PFBA: 7.9 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
3 facilities in Payne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 850 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DW-NATIONAL STANDARD-STILLWATER LLC | STILLWATER | Copper And Copper Compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds | 850 lb |
| STILLWATER BATCH PLANT | STILLWATER | - | 0 lb |
| CUSHING BATCH PLANT | CUSHING | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 234 tank facilities in Payne: 149 tanks in service and 505 closed. 80 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Payne 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.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Payne, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ANCHOR SWAN MCMURTRY ROAD LANDFILLSTILLWATER
- HUDSON REFINERYCUSHING
- HUDSON TANK FARMCUSHING
- PLANT SCIENCE AND WATER CONSERVATION LABORATORYSTILLWATER
- ROXANNA REFINERY-PAYNE COUNTYCUSHING
- SWAN HOSE DUMPSTILLWATER