Mertzon Gas Plant
Total reported releases 8k lb rose sharply year over year (+47%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2022.
14701 US-67, Mertzon, Texas · 211130 · Natural Gas Processing · operated by Targa Resources CORP
Notable Signals
No notable signals at this facility for the current reporting year. See chemicals and equity context below for the full picture.
What This Facility Releases
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Benzene
Benzene concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexane volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations are up 25% since 2022.
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Irion County County, TX (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 1,561. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.