Bastrop County, TX
The federal environmental record for Bastrop County (population 110,778): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
7
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Bastrop 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BASTROP COUNTY WCID 2 TX0110020 | PFPeA: 33.2 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
7 facilities in Bastrop filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 72k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. | BASTROP | Ammonia, Hydrogen sulfide | 51k lb |
| ACME BRICK CO-ELGIN PLANT | ELGIN | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 8k lb |
| STARLINK FACTORY BASTROP | BASTROP | Copper compounds | 8k lb |
| US ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP SWIFT RANGES | BASTROP | Lead | 2k lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC. - PLANT 46 | ELGIN | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 2k lb |
| FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION BASTROP | BASTROP | Lead | 250 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | ELGIN | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 169 tank facilities in Bastrop: 169 tanks in service and 300 closed. 56 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Bastrop 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 Bastrop, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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