Rusk, TX
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology. This is a different measure than the EJ Screening score for this county, which ranks it by percentile against every other tracked county rather than against fixed national thresholds.
Environmental data for Rusk in Texas · Population: 52,613
Rusk, TX is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 9 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 22 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 47/100 (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 10.5M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 16 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.
Water Systems (22)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| CITY OF HENDERSON | 14,666 | 1 |
| CHALK HILL SUD | 4,830 | 0 |
| CITY OF OVERTON | 3,023 | 9 |
| GOODSPRINGS WSC | 2,541 | 32 |
| CITY OF NEW LONDON | 2,484 | 1 |
| MINDEN-BRACHFIELD WSC | 2,346 | 1 |
| MT ENTERPRISE WSC | 2,205 | 1 |
| SOUTH RUSK COUNTY WSC | 1,947 | 12 |
| GASTON WSC | 1,917 | 0 |
| CITY OF TATUM | 1,902 | 31 |
| CRYSTAL FARMS WSC | 1,578 | 34 |
| PLEASANT HILL WSC | 987 | 0 |
| NEW PROSPECT WSC PLANT 1 | 936 | 0 |
| PRICE WSC | 933 | 0 |
| SOUTH RUSK COUNTY WSC COMPTON MCKNIGHT | 726 | 1 |
| CITY OF REKLAW | 660 | 11 |
| NEW PROSPECT WSC PLANT 2 & 3 | 501 | 0 |
| LANEVILLE WSC PLANT 2 | 468 | 6 |
| GOODSPRINGS WSC PLANT C | 363 | 5 |
| LANEVILLE WSC PLANT 1 | 261 | 1 |
| SHAN D WATER SUPPLY | 201 | 1 |
| DIRGIN WSC | 126 | 1 |
TRI Facilities (9)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Lake Steam Electric Station & Lignite Mine | 10.1M lbs |
| 2 | General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 45 | 259.7K lbs |
| 3 | Mansfield Plumbing Products LLC | 65.8K lbs |
| 4 | Fiberglass Specialties Inc | 28.5K lbs |
| 5 | Henderson Lumber Mill | 25.1K lbs |
| 6 | Sadler's Smokehouse LLC | 5.3K lbs |
| 7 | Baker Petrolite Kilgore Blend Plant | 2.8K lbs |
| 8 | Cold Vault | 0 lbs |
| 9 | Trinity Asphalt Inc. - Henderson | 0 lbs |
Cities in Rusk (3)
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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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.