Karnes County, TX
The federal environmental record for Karnes County (population 15,018): 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
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Karnes 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)
5 facilities in Karnes filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 91k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| EOG RESOURCES INC. MILTON HUB | KARNES CITY | Formaldehyde, Cyclohexane | 34k lb |
| EOG RESOURCES INC LYSSY HUB | HOBSON | Toluene, Formaldehyde | 32k lb |
| RED EWALD LLC | KARNES CITY | Styrene | 15k lb |
| ASHLAND SPECIALTY INGREDIENTS G.P. | KENEDY | Propylene oxide, Methylene bromide | 5k lb |
| MAVERICK MAINTENANCE & SUPPLY LLC | KARNES CITY | Styrene | 4k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 87 tank facilities in Karnes: 65 tanks in service and 168 closed. 36 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Karnes 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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