Austin County, TX
The federal environmental record for Austin County (population 31,677): 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
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Austin 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)
5 facilities in Austin filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 10k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTERN INTERNATIONAL GAS & CYLINDERS INC. | BELLVILLE | N,N-Dimethylformamide, Propylene | 9k lb |
| ACME BRICK CO-SAN FELIPE PLANT | SEALY | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead compounds | 1k lb |
| AFGLOBAL MAASS FLANGE SEALY | SEALY | Chromium, Nickel | 37 lb |
| CONTECH ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS - SEALY TX | SEALY | Lead | 0 lb |
| SIKA SEALY TEXAS | SEALY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 138 tank facilities in Austin: 97 tanks in service and 297 closed. 39 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Austin 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 Austin, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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