El Paso County, TX
The federal environmental record for El Paso County (population 869,880): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
6
federal cleanup sites
7
PFAS-detecting water systems
20
TRI facilities
19
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TOWN OF ANTHONY TX0710001 | PFOS: 33.1 ng/L PFOA: 29.1 ng/L PFBS: 28.7 ng/L | above final limit |
| EL PASO WATER UTILITIES PUBLIC SERVICE B TX0710002 | PFBA: 11 ng/L PFBS: 8.5 ng/L PFOS: 8.5 ng/L | above final limit |
| FORT BLISS MAIN POST AREA TX0710020 | PFHxS: 3.7 ng/L PFHxA: 3.1 ng/L | detected |
| LOWER VALLEY WATER DISTRICT TX0710154 | PFBA: 5.3 ng/L PFHxA: 3.4 ng/L PFPeA: 3.3 ng/L | detected |
| EAST MONTANA WATER SYSTEM TX0710178 | PFPeA: 6 ng/L PFBA: 5.7 ng/L PFHxA: 4.3 ng/L | detected |
| PASEO DEL ESTE MUD 1 TX0710186 | PFBS: 3.6 ng/L | detected |
| EAST BIGGS WATER SYSTEM TX0710187 | PFPeA: 4.1 ng/L PFHxA: 3.8 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
20 facilities in El Paso filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 817k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHELPS DODGE COPPER PRODUCTS CO | EL PASO | Selenium compounds, Antimony compounds | 272k lb |
| US ARMY 1ST ARMORED DIV & FORT BLISS RANGES | FORT BLISS | Copper, Dinitrotoluene (mixed isomers) | 200k lb |
| WESTERN EL PASO REFINERY | EL PASO | Hydrogen cyanide, Toluene | 145k lb |
| EAGLE FAMILY FOODS GROUP LLC | EL PASO | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 145k lb |
| SOUTHWIRE CO - EL PASO | EL PASO | Antimony compounds, Zinc compounds | 32k lb |
| AIR SYSTEM COMPONENTS INC | EL PASO | Certain glycol ethers | 8k lb |
| GLOBAL ALTERNATIVE FUELS LLC | EL PASO | Methanol | 7k lb |
| DAL-TILE EL PASO MANUFACTURING | EL PASO | Hydrogen fluoride, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 3k lb |
| NEXPERA - BORDERLAND SAR | EL PASO | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen sulfide | 2k lb |
| MSD LLC | EL PASO | Lead | 2k lb |
| VINTON STEEL LLC | VINTON | Zinc compounds, Manganese | 1k lb |
| CHAMPLAIN CABLE TEXAS CORP | EL PASO | Antimony compounds, Zinc compounds | 750 lb |
| INTERNATIONAL WIRE GROUP - CAMDEN WIRE FACILITY | EL PASO | Copper | 438 lb |
| SW FOAM | EL PASO | Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) | 88 lb |
| ISOMEDIX OPERATIONS INC. | EL PASO | Ethylene oxide | 43 lb |
| SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC | EL PASO | Manganese, Copper | 32 lb |
| US CBP EL PASO SECTOR BORDER PATROL TRAINING #TX0427 | FABENS | - | 0 lb |
| THE TORO CO | EL PASO | - | 0 lb |
| CHAMPLAIN CABLE TEXAS CORP | EL PASO | - | 0 lb |
| SENERGY PETROLEUM LLC - EL PASO BULK PLANT | EL PASO | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,253 tank facilities in El Paso: 827 tanks in service and 2,865 closed. 558 fuel releases are on record, of which 19 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps El Paso 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 El Paso, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AMERICAN SMELTING CO-EL PASO SMELTING WKEL PASO
- FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION LA TUNAANTHONY
- PLASTICS INTERNATIONAL INCORPVINTON
- SAN MARCUS - EL PASO COUNTY METAL SURVEYEL PASO
- THUNDER PRODUCTSEL PASO
- US ARMY 1ST ARMORED DIV & FORT BLISS RANGESEL PASO