Research snapshot · Water · 31 August 2026

Pfas and contaminants in Texas: 6 towns on the record, quiet right now

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 4 dated municipal records flagged as pfas and contaminants in Texas, spanning 6 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Taylor County, 14 March 2023. Since then 6 Texas towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Bexar County on 22 October 2025.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: County Judge’s Press Releases, Commissioners&#39 Court and Annual Drinking Water Reports.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202511
Dec 2025 to Feb 202600
Mar 2026 to May 202600
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)00

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Sep 2025 to Nov 2025, with 1 meetings.

The towns on the record6, earliest first

Every Texas town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Taylor Countyearliest 2023-03-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-03-14 · the document March 14, 2023
La Marqueearliest 2024-07-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-07-09 · the document 07/09/2024 - WASTEWATER UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE
Texarkanaearliest 2024-09-03 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-09-03 · the document 2024-092 ATTH 01 FY 2025 Budget Draft 09.03.24
Bexar Countyearliest 2025-10-22 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-10-22 · the document 2025-10-22_Judge On TCEQ ruling
Galvestondated to the year only
Midlanddated to the year only

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

22 October 2025 · Bexar County County Judge’s Press Releases

the document, on the town's own site 2025-10-22_Judge On TCEQ ruling

3 September 2024 · Texarkana Document Center / Finance

the document, on the town's own site 2024-092 ATTH 01 FY 2025 Budget Draft 09.03.24

9 July 2024 · La Marque Wastewater Public Notifications

the document, on the town's own site 07/09/2024 - WASTEWATER UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE

14 March 2023 · Taylor County Commissioners&#39 Court

the document, on the town's own site March 14, 2023

Companies on this record21 companies, 7 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
AllergenTaylor County
American Water Works AssociationMidland
Dustin Henslee, P.E., CFM, CSI, CPMTexarkana
Galveston County Drainage District #2La Marque
Galveston County Health DistrictLa Marque
J.W. Bramlett, SHRM-CPTexarkana
Lisa Thompson, M.P.S, CPM, CPCTexarkana
Mashell Daniel, P.E., CFM, CPMTexarkana
Midland County Freshwater Supply District No. 1Midland
Municipal Utilities DepartmentGalveston
Sheriffs officeTaylor County
TCEQBexar County
Texarkana Water UtilitiesTexarkana
Texas Water Development BoardMidland
Texas-New Mexico PowerLa Marque
TEXPOOLTaylor County
U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyGalveston
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)La Marque
Utilities DepartmentMidland
Walgreen'sTaylor County
WalmartTaylor County

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 97 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Pfas and contaminants across the country. The site's story on this topic: PFAS Is Spreading Through Municipal Agendas Faster Than Groundwater. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Pfas and contaminants, Texas

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Texas

every topic this state carries

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

6

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

14 March 2023

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 0 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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