Caldwell County, TX
The federal environmental record for Caldwell County (population 49,859): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
3
TRI facilities
0
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Caldwell 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MAXWELL WSC TX0280003 | PFPeA: 3.8 ng/L PFHxA: 3.7 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
3 facilities in Caldwell filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 14k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELGI RUBBER CO LLC | LULING | n-Hexane, Toluene | 11k lb |
| FLINT HILLS RESOURCES CORPUS CHRISTI LLC MUSTANG RIDGE | BUDA | n-Hexane, Toluene | 3k lb |
| PURE CASTINGS CO | LOCKHART | Chromium | 262 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 105 tank facilities in Caldwell: 81 tanks in service and 231 closed. 43 fuel releases are on record, of which 0 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Caldwell 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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