Johnson County, TX
The federal environmental record for Johnson County (population 202,906): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
3
federal cleanup sites
8
PFAS-detecting water systems
31
TRI facilities
9
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Johnson 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 ALVARADO TX1260001 | PFBA: 6.5 ng/L PFPeA: 3.4 ng/L PFHxA: 3.2 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF BURLESON TX1260002 | PFBA: 8.1 ng/L PFBS: 3.6 ng/L PFHxA: 3.5 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF CLEBURNE TX1260003 | PFBA: 7.6 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF VENUS TX1260006 | PFBA: 7.9 ng/L PFPeA: 4.2 ng/L PFHxA: 3.6 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF KEENE TX1260008 | PFBA: 5.6 ng/L | detected |
| BETHANY SUD TX1260016 | PFBA: 6.5 ng/L | detected |
| BETHESDA WSC TX1260017 | PFBA: 5.9 ng/L | detected |
| JOHNSON COUNTY SUD TX1260018 | PFBA: 13.8 ng/L PFPeA: 5 ng/L PFHxA: 4.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
31 facilities in Johnson filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 865k lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNS MANVILLE | CLEBURNE | Ammonia, Formaldehyde | 399k lb |
| SACHEM INC | CLEBURNE | Formic acid, Methanol | 184k lb |
| GODLEY GAS PLANT | GODLEY | n-Hexane, Toluene | 93k lb |
| TEXAS LIME CO | CLEBURNE | Vanadium compounds, Nickel compounds | 63k lb |
| JOHNSON COUNTY GENERATION FACILITY | CLEBURNE | Ammonia | 50k lb |
| DURA-TECH PROCESSES | MANSFIELD | Sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 25k lb |
| K-T GALVANIZING CO | VENUS | Zinc compounds, Lead compounds | 16k lb |
| DELEK RENEWABLES LLC | CLEBURNE | Methanol | 13k lb |
| JOHNSON COUNTY PIPE INC | ALVARADO | Styrene, Lead | 8k lb |
| TECHNICAL CHEMICAL CO | CLEBURNE | Methanol, Tetrachloroethylene | 5k lb |
| STANDARD PAINTS INC. | MANSFIELD | Toluene | 3k lb |
| ORTHMAN CONVEYING SYSTEMS | CLEBURNE | Chromium, Nickel | 1k lb |
| COASTAL CHEMICAL CO. LLC | CLEBURNE | Methanol, Ethylene glycol | 1k lb |
| SABRE INDUSTRIES | ALVARADO | Chromium, Zinc compounds | 841 lb |
| JET RESEARCH CENTER | ALVARADO | Copper, Lead | 652 lb |
| PVS DX INC. | CLEBURNE | Chlorine | 203 lb |
| JAMES HARDIE BUILDING PRODUCTS CLEBURNE | CLEBURNE | Lead compounds, Mercury compounds | 167 lb |
| OWEN OIL TOOLS LP | GODLEY | Lead | 165 lb |
| TEXAS TERMINAL | JOSHUA | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 68 lb |
| DFW WASTE OIL SERVICES | ALVARADO | Ethylene glycol, Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 25 lb |
| WABASH NATIONAL L.P | CLEBURNE | Nickel, Chromium | 2 lb |
| QUIKRETE - DALLAS TX PLANT | ALVARADO | Lead, Mercury | 2 lb |
| HAYES & STOLZ INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING CO. LLC | BURLESON | Manganese | 1 lb |
| HOLCIM-SOR INC.- DBA COLORADO RIVER CONCRETE | ALVARADO | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
| DAKOTA DISTRIBUTING | VENUS | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 340 tank facilities in Johnson: 263 tanks in service and 704 closed. 136 fuel releases are on record, of which 9 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Johnson 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 Johnson, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BURLESON-RAD-CONTAINERBURLESON
- SERVICE WASTE, INC.VENUS
- WOODARD AVE. MERCURYCLEBURNE