Houston County, TX
The federal environmental record for Houston County (population 22,066): 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
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Houston 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 |
|---|---|---|
| THE CONSOLIDATED WSC CENTRAL SYSTEM TX1130031 | PFBA: 5.1 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
3 facilities in Houston filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 628k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - GRAPELAND | GRAPELAND | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 587k lb |
| NUCOR VULCRAFT GROUP - GRAPELAND DIV | GRAPELAND | Certain glycol ethers, Manganese | 40k lb |
| ALAMO GAS PLANT | CROCKETT | Benzene | 837 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 124 tank facilities in Houston: 73 tanks in service and 257 closed. 44 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Houston 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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