Panola County, TX
The federal environmental record for Panola County (population 22,838): 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
6
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Panola 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 Panola filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.1M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAST TEXAS GAS PLANT | CARTHAGE | n-Hexane, Benzene | 1.0M lb |
| LOUISIANA PACIFIC CORP CARTHAGE OSB PLANT | CARTHAGE | Methanol, Formaldehyde | 52k lb |
| BULLDOG GAS PLANT | CARTHAGE | n-Hexane | 7k lb |
| PANOLA II GAS PLANT | CARTHAGE | Benzene | 3k lb |
| CARTHAGE GAS PLANT | CARTHAGE | Methanol, n-Hexane | 1k lb |
| TYSON POULTRY INC. - CARTHAGE TX PROCESSING PLANT | CARTHAGE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 129 tank facilities in Panola: 68 tanks in service and 269 closed. 60 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Panola 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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