Facility detail

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER WELSH PLANT

1187 COUNTY ROAD 1120, PITTSBURG, TX, 75686

Parent company: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER

Carcinogen PBT — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) Ammonia Hydrogen fluoride Barium And Barium Compounds Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Total (lbs)
2024 580,978 — 51,900 — 36,000 820,968
2023 500,261 — 41,400 — 29,000 683,855
2022 — — 49,000 510,293 34,000 717,467
2021 — 990,000 46,500 700,304 33,000 1,979,662
2020 — 940,000 43,400 640,235 28,000 1,832,812
2019 — 940,000 53,700 690,306 39,000 1,935,433
2018 — 1,100,000 62,100 790,307 41,000 2,229,139
2017 175,878 990,000 23,580 — 51,040 1,482,332
2016 721,040 1,000,250 56,400 — 25,000 2,024,176
2015 333,600 — 85,900 — 34,000 546,156
2014 414,010 — 112,000 — 45,000 708,702
2013 406,510 — 124,000 — 50,000 719,683
2012 478,060 — 141,000 — 56,000 835,605
2011 357,810 — 150,000 — 59,000 705,502
2010 637,510 — 200,000 — 56,000 1,108,893
2009 1,017,310 — 200,000 — 55,000 1,609,552
2008 50,110 — 180,000 — 52,000 326,565
2007 485,010 — 190,000 — 54,000 913,006
2006 486,440 — 180,000 — 52,000 886,354
2005 423,027 — 180,000 — 50,000 809,888
2004 522,010 — 190,000 — 54,000 976,371
2003 373,210 — 190,000 — 54,000 787,399
2002 627,010 — 190,000 — 55,000 1,120,820
2001 399,010 — 210,000 — 51,000 861,026
2000 398,140 — 200,000 — 48,000 823,360
1999 2,028,300 — 280,000 — 95,000 2,507,975
1998 1,586,800 — 400,000 — 690,000 2,846,225

▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.