Rusk County, TX
The federal environmental record for Rusk County (population 53,079): 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
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
5
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Rusk 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 HENDERSON TX2010001 | PFBA: 5.6 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
5 facilities in Rusk filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN LAKE STEAM ELECTRIC STATION & LIGNITE MINE | TATUM | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Hydrogen fluoride | 1.2M lb |
| GENERAL SHALE BRICK INC. - PLANT 45 | HENDERSON | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrogen fluoride | 29k lb |
| MANSFIELD PLUMBING PRODUCTS LLC | HENDERSON | Styrene | 9k lb |
| BAKER PETROLITE KILGORE BLEND PLANT | KILGORE | Methanol, Toluene | 40 lb |
| TRINITY ASPHALT INC. - HENDERSON | HENDERSON | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 233 tank facilities in Rusk: 117 tanks in service and 542 closed. 98 fuel releases are on record, of which 5 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Rusk 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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