Upton County, TX
The federal environmental record for Upton County (population 3,109): 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
7
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Upton 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)
7 facilities in Upton filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 496k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEMBROOK GAS PLANT | MIDKIFF | Cyclohexane, n-Hexane | 193k lb |
| BENEDUM GAS PLANT | RANKIN | Formaldehyde, n-Hexane | 169k lb |
| JEB GAS PLANT | RANKIN | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 80k lb |
| NORTH CROSS FACILITY 4 | MC CAMEY | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 17k lb |
| TIPPETT GAS PLANT | MC CAMEY | Formaldehyde, n-Hexane | 16k lb |
| MIDKIFF GAS PLANT | MIDKIFF | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 15k lb |
| PANTHER GAS PLANT | RANKIN | n-Hexane, Cyclohexane | 6k lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 28 tank facilities in Upton: 17 tanks in service and 62 closed. 17 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Upton 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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