Lavaca County, TX
The federal environmental record for Lavaca County (population 20,571): 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
4
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Lavaca 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)
4 facilities in Lavaca filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 252k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOAKUM CRYOGENIC PLANT | YOAKUM | n-Hexane, Toluene | 140k lb |
| WILCOX GAS PLANT | HALLETTSVILLE | Formaldehyde, Toluene | 109k lb |
| RANCH HAND - 153 | SHINER | Chromium, Manganese | 3k lb |
| SPOETZL BREWERY INC | SHINER | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 101 tank facilities in Lavaca: 54 tanks in service and 194 closed. 47 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Lavaca 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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