Leon County, TX
The federal environmental record for Leon County (population 16,538): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
6
TRI facilities
8
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Leon 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)
6 facilities in Leon filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 40k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUCOR STEEL - JEWETT TEXAS DIV | JEWETT | Zinc compounds, Manganese And Manganese Compounds | 37k lb |
| MULTI-CHEM GROUP MARQUEZ TX FACILITY | MARQUEZ | Methanol, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 3k lb |
| TEXAS MISCELLANEOUS IRON | OAKWOOD | Manganese, Copper | 29 lb |
| SUN COAST RESOURCES LLC | BUFFALO | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 0 lb |
| RIDLEY BLOCK OPERATIONS | BUFFALO | - | 0 lb |
| GREEN CEMENT LLC | JEWETT | Lead And Lead Compounds, Mercury compounds | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 101 tank facilities in Leon: 84 tanks in service and 196 closed. 29 fuel releases are on record, of which 8 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Leon 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 Leon, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BUFFALO HF INVESTIGATIONBUFFALO
- OAKWOOD DERAILMENTOAKWOOD