Fort Bend, TX

Moderate Risk (46/100)

Environmental data for Fort Bend in Texas

Fort Bend, TX is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 28 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilityies, 0 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 46/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.

Industrial disclosures inside the county total 14.3M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 0 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.

All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.

TRI Facilities
28
Water Systems
0
Superfund Sites
0
Total Releases
14.3M lbs

TRI Facilities (28)

# Facility Total Releases
1 W.a. Parish Electric Generating Station 9.4M lbs
2 Championx-Sugar Land 2.2M lbs
3 Nalco Fresno Facility 1.3M lbs
4 Frito-Lay,inc. 528.3K lbs
5 443 - Richmond Oilseeds 411.3K lbs
6 Crown Beverage Packaging 349.7K lbs
7 Hudson Products Corp 112.6K lbs
8 Seatex Corp 66.0K lbs
9 Ncfi Polyurethanes 8.6K lbs
10 Endurance Composites-Pearland 505 lbs
11 Safety-Kleen Systems Missouri City (mis) 25 lbs
12 Allied Plant 1 - Rosenberg 18 lbs
13 Emerson Automation Solutions Final Controls 11 lbs
14 Sece Schlumberger Technology 4 lbs
15 Cinco Plant 1 lbs
16 Powerohm Resistors Inc a Div of Hubbell Industrial Controls 1 lbs
17 Richmond Plant 1 lbs
18 Rosenberg Block Plant 1 lbs
19 Forum Energy Technologies- Valve Solutions Pbv 0 lbs
20 Heidelberg Materials - Arcola Rmc 0 lbs
21 Heidelberg Materials - Rosenberg Rmc 0 lbs
22 Heidelberg Materials - Gaines Rd Rmc 0 lbs
23 Ipc Building Products 0 lbs
24 Purina Animal Nutrition LLC - Rosenberg 0 lbs
25 Cemex Construction Materials Houston LLC - Stafford 0 lbs
26 Cemex Construction Materials Houston LLC - Missouri City 0 lbs
27 Umbilicals International 0 lbs
28 Cemex Construction Materials Houston LLC - Arcola Rm 0 lbs

Cities in Fort Bend (8)

Beasley
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1 facilities · 1 water
Missouri City
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3 facilities · 7 water
Richmond
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3 facilities · 5 water
Rosenberg
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6 facilities · 3 water
Stafford
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4 facilities · 2 water
Sugar Land
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5 facilities · 30 water
Thompsons
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1 facilities · 1 water
Fresno
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1 facilities · 0 water

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the environmental risk level in Fort Bend, Texas?
Fort Bend, TX has an environmental risk score of 46/100 (Moderate Risk), based on 28 TRI facilities, 0 Superfund sites, and 0 water systems on record. No water systems have current health-based violations. Source: EPA TRI, SDWIS, and Superfund NPL.
Are there Superfund sites in Fort Bend?
No Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) sites are currently registered in Fort Bend, TX in the EPA database.
How many toxic release facilities are in Fort Bend?
Fort Bend, TX has 28 TRI-reporting facilities on record with the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, with a combined total of 14.3M lbs in reported toxic releases. TRI facilities self-report annual chemical release data to the EPA.
What is the air quality in Fort Bend?
Air quality monitoring data (EPA AQS) is not available for Fort Bend, TX. This may indicate no EPA monitoring stations are located in the county. For regional air quality data, see the state environmental profile or visit PlainAirData.com.
Is the drinking water safe in Fort Bend?
No EPA-regulated water systems are currently recorded for Fort Bend, TX in the SDWIS database.
What environmental agencies cover Fort Bend?
Environmental compliance in Fort Bend, Texas is overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the federal level and the Texas state environmental agency. Facilities report to the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, water systems are regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and contaminated sites are managed under the Superfund program. Contact your state environmental agency for local concerns.

What does this county environmental profile show?

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.

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Data sourced from U.S. EPA environmental datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainEnviro Editorial