Hutchinson County, TX
The federal environmental record for Hutchinson County (population 20,033): 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
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
4
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Hutchinson reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
10 facilities in Hutchinson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 5.3M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUTRIEN US LLC | BORGER | Ammonia, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 3.0M lb |
| SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS USA | BORGER | N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone, Phenol | 1.5M lb |
| PHILLLIPS 66 CO BORGER REFINERY | BORGER | Lead compounds, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 540k lb |
| BORGER CARBON BLACK PLANT | BORGER | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen sulfide | 162k lb |
| CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO LP BORGER PLANT | BORGER | Hydrogen sulfide, 1,3-Butadiene | 55k lb |
| ORION ENGINEERED CARBONS BORGER PLANT | BORGER | Hydrogen sulfide, Benzene | 32k lb |
| UNIVAR SOLUTION USA INC BORGER | BORGER | Methanol | 711 lb |
| ROCK CREEK GAS PLANT | BORGER | n-Hexane | 367 lb |
| JOHNSON TANK FARM | BORGER | Benzene, Ethylbenzene | 96 lb |
| BRENNTAG SOUTHWEST INC BORGER | BORGER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 174 tank facilities in Hutchinson: 64 tanks in service and 369 closed. 55 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Hutchinson as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 4 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 Hutchinson, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- ROCK CREEK GAS PLANT FISH KILLBORGER