Walker, TX
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Environmental data for Walker in Texas · Population: 78,292
Walker, TX is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 6 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 51 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 33/100 (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 51.1K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 22 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 (51)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| CITY OF HUNTSVILLE | 48,522 | 0 |
| SANTA FE UTILITY | 8,265 | 0 |
| TDCJ BETO UNIT | 8,148 | 1 |
| TDCJ COFFIELD UNIT | 7,965 | 8 |
| RIVERSIDE SUD | 6,492 | 82 |
| TDCJ CHASE FIELD | 5,595 | 1 |
| TDCJ RAMSEY AREA | 5,119 | 2 |
| TDCJ JESTER UNIT 3 | 3,365 | 1 |
| TDCJ WAINWRIGHT UNIT | 3,148 | 1 |
| TDCJ FERGUSON UNIT | 3,043 | 8 |
| TDCJ MEMORIAL UNIT | 2,501 | 1 |
| DODGE OAKHURST WSC 2 | 2,500 | 3 |
| WALKER COUNTY SUD D | 2,184 | 0 |
| OAK HOLLOW SUBDIVISION | 1,980 | 0 |
| PHELPS SUD | 1,900 | 5 |
| HIGH MEADOWS RANCH WATER SUPPLY | 1,827 | 0 |
| WALKER COUNTY SUD B CRABBS PRAIRIE | 1,815 | 0 |
| WALKER COUNTY SUD C | 1,674 | 0 |
| RANCH CREST SUBDIVISION | 1,623 | 0 |
| TDCJ PACK UNIT | 1,597 | 72 |
| WATERWOOD MUD 1 | 1,494 | 0 |
| WALKER COUNTY SUD A | 1,458 | 0 |
| TDCJ LUTHER UNITS | 1,431 | 4 |
| CITY OF NEW WAVERLY | 1,125 | 1 |
| MONTEBELLO UTILITY | 1,068 | 0 |
| LIBERTY COUNTY UTILITIES | 1,008 | 0 |
| YAUPON COVE | 1,000 | 0 |
| B & J WATER CO | 675 | 0 |
| DOS AGUAS | 669 | 0 |
| PEACH CREEK PLANTATION WATER SYSTEM | 534 | 0 |
| WALKER COUNTY SUD F | 447 | 1 |
| POWDER MILL ESTATES | 342 | 0 |
| WATSON LAKES WSC | 330 | 0 |
| SHOREWOOD FOREST WATER SYSTEM | 312 | 1 |
| GREEN RICH SHORES AND STERLING ISLAND SU | 275 | 16 |
| PINE GROVE ESTATES WATER SYSTEM | 243 | 0 |
| POE BRACEWELL WATER SYSTEM | 220 | 0 |
| DEEP RIVER PLANTATION | 195 | 7 |
| LAKE LIVINGSTON HEIGHTS WSC | 150 | 47 |
| OAKS OF ROSEHILL | 132 | 0 |
| TWIN OAKS MHP HARRIS | 105 | 0 |
| TIMBER SWITCH WATER PLANT | 105 | 0 |
| BELL WATER | 92 | 2 |
| CIELO SUBDIVISION | 51 | 0 |
| EMERALD ESTATES | 48 | 102 |
| BEAU VIEW UTILITIES | 45 | 1 |
| HIGHWAY 90 ESTATES | 39 | 0 |
| EMORY GLEN WATER SYSTEM | 0 | 0 |
| TRA LIVINGSTON REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY | 0 | 0 |
| TRA TRINITY COUNTY REGIONAL | 0 | 0 |
| TRA HUNTSVILLE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY | 0 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (6)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gardner Glass Products Inc | 38.8K lbs |
| 2 | Exxonmobil Huntsville Polyolefin Thermoset Resin Plant | 8.2K lbs |
| 3 | Liquid Minerals Group New Waverly Plant | 2.7K lbs |
| 4 | Ufp New Waverly | 785 lbs |
| 5 | Weatherford International Huntsville Manufacturing | 574 lbs |
| 6 | Txi-Huntsville Ready Mix | 0 lbs |
Cities in Walker (2)
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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.