Lamb County, TX
The federal environmental record for Lamb County (population 12,711): 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
2
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lamb 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)
2 facilities in Lamb filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 258k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONTINENTAL DAIRY FACILITIES SOUTHWEST LLC | LITTLEFIELD | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Peracetic acid | 224k lb |
| SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO TOLK STATION | EARTH | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 34k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 115 tank facilities in Lamb: 52 tanks in service and 243 closed. 29 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lamb 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.
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