Brown County, TX
The federal environmental record for Brown County (population 38,709): 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
3
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
10
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Brown 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CITY OF BROWNWOOD TX0250002 | PFBA: 10.8 ng/L | detected |
| BROOKESMITH SPECIAL UTILITY DISTRICT TX0250004 | PFBA: 5.3 ng/L | detected |
| ZEPHYR WSC TX0250019 | PFBA: 6.6 ng/L 6:2 FTS: 5.4 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
9 facilities in Brown filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 347k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOHLER CO | BROWNWOOD | Styrene, Methyl methacrylate | 230k lb |
| 3M CO - BROWNWOOD | BROWNWOOD | Xylene (mixed isomers), n-Butyl alcohol | 89k lb |
| SAWYER OILFIELD PRODUCTS | BROWNWOOD | Styrene | 26k lb |
| VRC TECHNOLOGIES | BROWNWOOD | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 2k lb |
| US ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP BOWIE RANGES | BROWNWOOD | Lead | 937 lb |
| WRIGHT ASPHALT PRODUCTS - BROWNWOOD | BROWNWOOD | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Naphthalene | 47 lb |
| POTTERS INDUSTRIES LLC | BROWNWOOD | Lead | 36 lb |
| SUPERIOR ESSEX INTERNATIONAL INC. | BROWNWOOD | Copper | 5 lb |
| BROWNWOOD | BROWNWOOD | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 200 tank facilities in Brown: 94 tanks in service and 445 closed. 84 fuel releases are on record, of which 10 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Brown 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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