Fayette County, TX
The federal environmental record for Fayette County (population 25,474): 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
4
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Fayette 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 LA GRANGE TX0750003 | PFBA: 10.4 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
4 facilities in Fayette filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 242k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCRA FAYETTE POWER PROJECT | LA GRANGE | Barium And Barium Compounds, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 206k lb |
| GIDDINGS GAS PLANT | GIDDINGS | n-Hexane, Benzene | 36k lb |
| LA GRANGE GAS PLANT | LA GRANGE | - | 0 lb |
| DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA INC. SCHULENBURG | SCHULENBURG | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 223 tank facilities in Fayette: 91 tanks in service and 470 closed. 78 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Fayette 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 Fayette, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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