Waller County, TX
The federal environmental record for Waller County (population 63,553): 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
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
10
TRI facilities
6
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheridan Disposal Services | Hempstead | on the NPL | 03/31/1989 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Waller 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)
10 facilities in Waller filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 5k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMPERATIVE CHEMICAL PARTNERS HEMPSTEAD FACILITY | HEMPSTEAD | Methanol, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 5k lb |
| GRUNDFOS CBS | BROOKSHIRE | Copper, Nickel | 5 lb |
| ALEGACY EQUIPMENT LLC | WALLER | Ethylene glycol | 5 lb |
| OLDCASTLE PRECAST INC | BROOKSHIRE | Lead compounds, Mercury compounds | 5 lb |
| ALLIED PLANT 6 - WEST KATY | KATY | Lead | 1 lb |
| WESTLAKE ROYAL ROOFING - KATY | BROOKSHIRE | - | 0 lb |
| PAVESTONE - KATY TX PLANT | KATY | Lead | 0 lb |
| HEIDELBERG MATERIALS - BROOKSHIRE RMC | BROOKSHIRE | Lead | 0 lb |
| ALLIED PLANT 7 - BROOKSHIRE | BROOKSHIRE | Lead | 0 lb |
| CEMEX CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS HOUSTON LLC - KATY | KATY | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 132 tank facilities in Waller: 118 tanks in service and 233 closed. 59 fuel releases are on record, of which 6 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Waller 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 Waller, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- SHERIDAN DISPOSAL SERVICESHEMPSTEAD