Travis County, TX
The federal environmental record for Travis County (population 1,334,961): 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
17
PFAS-detecting water systems
22
TRI facilities
14
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Travis 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 AUSTIN WATER & WASTEWATER TX2270001 | PFBA: 8.4 ng/L PFHxS: 6.2 ng/L PFBS: 5.1 ng/L | above final limit |
| CITY OF PFLUGERVILLE TX2270014 | PFNA: 25.2 ng/L PFOS: 14.4 ng/L PFPeA: 13.3 ng/L | above final limit |
| MANVILLE WSC TX2270033 | PFNA: 24.3 ng/L PFOS: 12.4 ng/L PFBS: 10 ng/L | above final limit |
| WINDERMERE COMMUNITY TX2270161 | PFBS: 9.2 ng/L PFOS: 7.5 ng/L PFHxS: 6.5 ng/L | above final limit |
| TRAVIS COUNTY WCID 10 TX2270182 | PFBA: 9.9 ng/L PFOS: 5.5 ng/L PFHxS: 4 ng/L | above final limit |
| CITY OF MANOR TX2270002 | PFBA: 5.2 ng/L PFBS: 3.9 ng/L | detected |
| CREEDMOOR MAHA WSC TX2270008 | PFBA: 6.8 ng/L PFHxS: 6.7 ng/L PFBS: 5.3 ng/L | detected |
| JONESTOWN WSC TX2270011 | PFBA: 7 ng/L | detected |
| TRAVIS COUNTY WCID 17 TX2270027 | PFPeA: 3.2 ng/L | detected |
| TRAVIS COUNTY WCID 18 TX2270083 | PFBA: 8.2 ng/L PFPeA: 3.1 ng/L | detected |
| CITY OF LAGO VISTA TX2270092 | PFBA: 7.4 ng/L | detected |
| AUSTIN WHITE LIME COMPANY MCNEIL PLANT & TX2270196 | PFBS: 4.6 ng/L | detected |
| WELLS BRANCH MUD 1 TX2270227 | PFBA: 5.4 ng/L | detected |
| WEST TRAVIS COUNTY PUBLIC UTILITY AGENCY TX2270235 | PFBA: 6.5 ng/L | detected |
| AUSTINS COLONY TX2270255 | PFPeA: 12 ng/L PFBS: 5.9 ng/L PFBA: 5 ng/L | detected |
| NORTHTOWN MUD TX2270264 | PFBA: 5.9 ng/L | detected |
| TRAVIS COUNTY MUD 18 TX2270403 | PFBA: 8.6 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
22 facilities in Travis filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 427k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMSUNG AUSTIN SEMICONDUCTOR | AUSTIN | Ammonia, Ethylene glycol | 192k lb |
| TESLA GIGA TEXAS | AUSTIN | Nickel And Nickel Compounds, Chromium | 101k lb |
| SPANSION LLC | AUSTIN | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 68k lb |
| NXP USA INC. - ED BLUESTEIN FACILITY | AUSTIN | Ethylene glycol, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 58k lb |
| FLINT HILLS RESOURCES CORPUS CHRISTI LLC AUSTIN TERMINAL | AUSTIN | n-Hexane, Toluene | 4k lb |
| NXP USA INC. - OAK HILL FACILITY | AUSTIN | Ethylene glycol, Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 2k lb |
| SUN COAST RESOURCES LLC | AUSTIN | Zinc compounds | 1k lb |
| PENTAGON TECHNOLOGIES GROUP | AUSTIN | Hydrogen fluoride, Nitric acid | 618 lb |
| LIFELAST | PFLUGERVILLE | Diisocyanates | 236 lb |
| ICU MEDICAL INC | AUSTIN | Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | 2 lb |
| FLEXTRONICS AMERICA L.L.C. | AUSTIN | Copper | 2 lb |
| MANOR HOT MIX PLANT | MANOR | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 1 lb |
| ASPHALT INC. HAROLD GREEN | AUSTIN | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 1 lb |
| BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INT | AUSTIN | Lead | 1 lb |
| ASPHALT INC MIX MUSTANG RIDGE PLANT | AUSTIN | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 1 lb |
| ERGON ASPHALT & EMULSIONS INC. - MANOR | MANOR | - | 0 lb |
| CUSTOM CRETE - TERRY O LANE | AUSTIN | - | 0 lb |
| FORTERRA PIPE & PRECAST - AUSTIN | AUSTIN | Lead | 0 lb |
| CENTEX MATERIALS - SOUTH PLANT RMX | AUSTIN | Lead | 0 lb |
| PALM HARBOR HOMES INC. | AUSTIN | - | 0 lb |
| ERGON ASPHALT & EMULSIONS INC. - AUSTIN | AUSTIN | - | 0 lb |
| CENTEX MATERIALS - ROUND ROCK RMX | AUSTIN | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 1,563 tank facilities in Travis: 1,418 tanks in service and 3,138 closed. 773 fuel releases are on record, of which 14 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Travis 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 Travis, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- AUSTIN PLANE CRASHAUSTIN
- BERGSTROM AIR FORCE BASEAUSTIN