Ward County, TX
The federal environmental record for Ward County (population 10,966): 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
4
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Ward 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)
4 facilities in Ward filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 7k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MI VIDA TREATER PLANT | BARSTOW | Benzene, n-Hexane | 4k lb |
| BONE SPRINGS GAS PLANT | BARSTOW | n-Hexane | 2k lb |
| CHAMPIONX-MONAHANS 0438 | MONAHANS | Xylene (mixed isomers), Ammonia | 1k lb |
| HALLIBURTON MONAHANS BAROID | MONAHANS | Certain glycol ethers, Lead And Lead Compounds | 175 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 112 tank facilities in Ward: 37 tanks in service and 252 closed. 38 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Ward 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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