Nueces County, TX
The federal environmental record for Nueces County (population 352,289): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
9
federal cleanup sites
6
PFAS-detecting water systems
27
TRI facilities
25
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brine Service Company | Corpus Christi | on the NPL | 09/05/2002 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Nueces with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| CITY OF AGUA DULCE TX1780001 | PFBA: 16.1 ng/L 6:2 FTS: 5.9 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF BISHOP TX1780002 | PFBA: 6.6 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TX1780003 | PFBA: 11.5 ng/L PFPeA: 5.6 ng/L PFHxA: 3.8 ng/L | detected |
| NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 TX1780005 | PFBA: 12 ng/L | detected |
| NUECES COUNTY WCID 4 TX1780006 | PFBA: 12 ng/L | detected |
| CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION TX1780017 | PFBA: 7.6 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
27 facilities in Nueces filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 14.1M lb released. The 25 largest by volume:
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| US ECOLOGY TEXAS INC | ROBSTOWN | Aluminum oxide (fibrous forms), Asbestos (friable) | 9.0M lb |
| CITGO REFINING & CHEMICALS CO LP EAST PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Hydrogen cyanide, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 1.3M lb |
| FLINT HILLS RESOURCES CORPUS CHRISTI LLC - WEST PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Xylene (mixed isomers) | 889k lb |
| VALERO REFINING-TEXAS LP CORPUS CHRISTI WEST PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Hydrogen cyanide, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 881k lb |
| AMERICAN CHROME & CHEMICALS INC | CORPUS CHRISTI | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Ammonia | 530k lb |
| CITGO REFINING & CHEMICALS CO LP-WEST PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Diethanolamine | 270k lb |
| FLINT HILLS RESOURCES CORPUS CHRISTI LLC - EAST PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 262k lb |
| TICONA POLYMERS INC | BISHOP | n-Hexane, Methanol | 262k lb |
| VALERO REFINING TEXAS LP CORPUS CHRISTI EAST PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), n-Hexane | 252k lb |
| EQUISTAR CHEMICALS LP | CORPUS CHRISTI | Ethylene, Propylene | 220k lb |
| BASF CORP | BISHOP | n-Hexane, Phenol | 91k lb |
| US NAVY NAVAL AIR STATION CORPUS CHRISTI | CORPUS CHRISTI | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Naphthalene | 88k lb |
| JAVELINA CO | CORPUS CHRISTI | Ethylene, Propylene | 30k lb |
| BUCKEYE TEXAS PROCESSING LLC-CORPUS CHRISTI | CORPUS CHRISTI | n-Hexane, Propylene | 28k lb |
| MAGELLAN PROCESSING L.P. | CORPUS CHRISTI | Methanol, n-Hexane | 23k lb |
| MAJEK BOAT WORKS | CORPUS CHRISTI | Styrene | 19k lb |
| SHOUP GAS PROCESSING & FRACTIONATION PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 11k lb |
| OXEA BISHOP LLC | BISHOP | Acetaldehyde, Crotonaldehyde | 7k lb |
| UNIVAR SOLUTIONS USA | CORPUS CHRISTI | Toluene, n-Hexane | 2k lb |
| CITGO REFINING & CHEMICALS CO LP-DEEP SEA TERMINAL | CORPUS CHRISTI | n-Hexane, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 2k lb |
| UNIVAR SOLUTIONS USA | CORPUS CHRISTI | Ethylene glycol, Diethanolamine | 1k lb |
| HEP JAVELINA SMR LLC | CORPUS CHRISTI | Ammonia | 442 lb |
| VALERO CORPUS CHRISTI ASPHALT TERMINAL | CORPUS CHRISTI | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 69 lb |
| TDC LLC-CORPUS CHRISTI PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Hydrogen sulfide | 54 lb |
| HALLIBURTON CORPUS CHRISTI GRINDING PLANT | CORPUS CHRISTI | Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,056 tank facilities in Nueces: 532 tanks in service and 2,215 closed. 691 fuel releases are on record, of which 25 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Nueces 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 Nueces, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BRINE SERVICE COMPANYCORPUS CHRISTI
- CITGO CORPUS CHRISTI REFINERY EAST PLANTCORPUS CHRISTI
- CORPUS CHRISTI REfiNERYCORPUS CHRISTI
- ERGON DRINKING WATER RESPONSECORPUS CHRISTI
- NAVAL AIR STATION CORPUS CHRISTICORPUS CHRISTI
- NAVIGATION BOULEVARD GASOLINE SPILLCORPUS CHRISTI
- ROGERS DELINTED COTTONSEED COMPANYROBSTOWN
- US ARMY RESERVE CENTER CORPUS CHRISTICORPUS CHRISTI
- US COAST GUARDCORPUS CHRISTI