Lamar County, TX
The federal environmental record for Lamar County (population 51,127): 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
8
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lamar 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)
8 facilities in Lamar filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 46k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| POTTERS INDUSTRIES LLC | PARIS | Barium And Barium Compounds | 38k lb |
| SILGAN CONTAINERS MANUFACTURING CORP | PARIS | n-Butyl alcohol, Certain glycol ethers | 3k lb |
| LAMAR TRAILERS | SUMNER | Manganese, Nickel | 3k lb |
| PJ TRAILERS MFG | SUMNER | Triglycidyl isocyanurate, Manganese | 986 lb |
| US ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP MAXEY RANGES | POWDERLY | Lead | 381 lb |
| LOAD TRAIL LLC | SUMNER | Manganese, Nickel | 188 lb |
| PARIS ASPHALT PLANT | PARIS | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 5 lb |
| OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDEN | POWDERLY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 213 tank facilities in Lamar: 143 tanks in service and 443 closed. 65 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lamar 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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