Fort Bend, TX
Transparent derived index from EPA TRI / SDWIS / Superfund extracts: not an official EPA rating. Fixed caps: facilities ≤25 pts (50+ = max), log10 releases ≤25 pts, Superfund ≤25 pts (5/site), health-violation systems ≤15 pts (3/system), high-chemical facilities ≤10 pts. Bands: High ≥60, Moderate ≥30. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against other tracked counties rather than against these fixed caps.
Environmental data for Fort Bend in Texas · Population: 859,721
TRI sites such as W.a. Parish Electric Generating Station; Championx-Sugar Land; Nalco Fresno Facility; SDWIS systems such as FORT BEND COUNTY WCID 2; CITY OF ROSENBERG; CITY OF FULSHEAR anchor Fort Bend, TX's EPA extract. Derived burden score 61/100 (High Risk) uses fixed national caps on density, log release volume, Superfund count, and health-flagged systems - not an official EPA rating.
EPCRA disclosures in Fort Bend total 14.3M lbs; health-flagged SDWIS rows include CITY OF NEEDVILLE; CITY OF KENDLETON; CITY OF BEASLEY, while W.a. Parish Electric Generating Station leads TRI pounds. No AQS county monitors report here.
Largest TRI sites in the extract: W.a. Parish Electric Generating Station; Championx-Sugar Land; Nalco Fresno Facility. Named SDWIS systems: FORT BEND COUNTY WCID 2; CITY OF ROSENBERG; CITY OF FULSHEAR. Burden score 61/100 (High Risk) is the only weighted composite here; tables reproduce EPA disclosure history, not a current-safety verdict.
Release-over-release change
What changed for Fort Bend, TX: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
-1.3%
21 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
+1.0%
2.9 million lb → 3.0 million lb, every facility that filed
These two measures point in opposite directions. Releases from the facilities present in both years fell, while the inventory-wide total rose. The difference is which facilities filed, not a different estimate of the same plants.
Between the two reporting years, 2 facilities filed for the first time and 0 stopped filing. Facilities entering or leaving the inventory are excluded from the same-facility comparison above.
- Fort Bend, TX's total reported releases fell from 2.9 million lb in 2022 to 2.9 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Fort Bend, TX's land releases fell from 1.3 million lb in 2022 to 1.0 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Fort Bend, TX's air releases rose from 964.9 thousand lb in 2022 to 1.1 million lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Fort Bend, TX's off-site transfers rose from 695.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 755.8 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Water Systems (55)
| System | System pop (SDWIS) | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| FORT BEND COUNTY WCID 2 | 49,173 | 0 |
| CITY OF ROSENBERG | 43,158 | 0 |
| CITY OF FULSHEAR | 34,000 | 0 |
| CITY OF RICHMOND | 25,326 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 25 | 15,327 | 0 |
| QUAIL VALLEY UTILITY DISTRICT | 14,409 | 0 |
| HARRIS COUNTY MUD 168 | 13,029 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 128 | 10,974 | 0 |
| CITY OF MISSOURI CITY MUSTANG BAYOU WATE | 9,147 | 0 |
| MEMORIAL MUD | 6,615 | 0 |
| CITY OF MEADOWS PLACE | 5,000 | 0 |
| CITY OF MISSOURI CITY | 4,847 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 129 | 4,713 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 5 | 4,665 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 149 | 4,638 | 0 |
| THUNDERBIRD UTILITY DISTRICT 1 | 4,203 | 0 |
| 5TH STREET WATER SYSTEM | 3,099 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 191 | 3,099 | 0 |
| CITY OF NEEDVILLE | 3,089 | 1 |
| KINGDOM HEIGHTS WATER SYSTEM | 2,934 | 0 |
| MEADOWCREEK MUD | 2,607 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 140 RIVERS EDGE | 2,547 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 137 | 2,409 | 0 |
| THUNDERBIRD UTILITY DISTRICT SYSTEM 2 | 1,821 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 115 RIVERSTONE | 1,527 | 0 |
| CITY OF KENDLETON | 1,207 | 1 |
| ROYAL LAKES ESTATES | 1,002 | 0 |
| CITY OF BEASLEY | 977 | 1 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 100 | 651 | 0 |
| WALLER COUNTY MUD 41 | 594 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 140 | 462 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 253 | 420 | 0 |
| CITY OF ORCHARD | 400 | 0 |
| BRAZORIA COUNTY MUD 82 | 390 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 162 | 333 | 0 |
| SIENNA MANAGEMENT DISTRICT | 300 | 0 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 251 | 276 | 0 |
| WOODLOCH MHP | 264 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 159 | 207 | 0 |
| AUTUMN SHADOWS MOBILE HOME PARK | 150 | 1 |
| SUN RANCH WATER SYSTEM | 135 | 1 |
| RICHMOND COMMUNITY ESTATES | 90 | 0 |
| GOLDENROD WSC | 85 | 0 |
| MILLER MHP | 66 | 0 |
| RIVERBEND RV PARK AND RESORT | 60 | 1 |
| HOUSTON SUBURBAN HEIGHTS MHP | 60 | 8 |
| MESQUITE MHP | 60 | 0 |
| PINE RIDGE AHC | 40 | 0 |
| TWIN LAKES CLUB | 39 | 1 |
| SAKO PROPERTIES | 29 | 1 |
| THE LANDING II SUBDIVISION | 15 | 0 |
| PRADERA OAKS WATER SYSTEM | 0 | 0 |
| SIENNA REGIONAL MUD | 0 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 163 | 0 | 0 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 170 | 0 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (28)
Cities in Fort Bend (14)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.