Facility detail

ACME BRICK CO-ELGIN PLANT

1776 OLD MCDADE RD, ELGIN, TX, 78621

Parent company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC

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 Hydrogen fluoride Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) Manganese compounds Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) Total (lbs)
2024 1,430 6,930 — — — 8,385
2023 1,669 8,449 — — — 10,144
2022 1,647 8,207 — — — 9,881
2021 1,338 6,715 — — — 8,115
2020 1,552 7,818 — 47 — 9,441
2019 23,981 39,223 — — — 63,231
2018 43,516 38,130 — — — 81,675
2017 24,700 34,796 — 56 10 59,592
2016 24,213 37,431 — — — 61,644
2015 41,404 40,559 — — — 81,963
2014 37,367 42,238 — — — 79,605
2013 42,715 53,124 — — — 95,839
2012 34,728 41,027 — — — 75,755
2011 41,427 52,903 — — — 94,330
2010 38,402 41,347 — — — 79,749
2009 29,965 29,134 — — — 59,099
2008 25,360 24,520 — — — 49,880
2007 27,360 26,560 — — — 53,920
2006 49,200 47,600 — — — 96,800
2005 60,260 58,100 — — — 118,360
2004 57,040 56,160 — — — 113,200
2003 52,560 54,200 — 167 170 107,288
2002 94,000 88,000 — — — 182,000
2001 94,000 88,000 — — — 182,000
2000 62,174 28,566 — — — 90,740
1999 85,136 39,116 — — — 124,252
1998 30,400 — — — — 30,400
1996 34,398 19,009 250 250 250 54,157
1995 30,031 13,798 250 250 250 44,579
1994 — — 250 250 250 750
1993 — — 250 250 250 750
1992 — — 328 250 358 936
1991 — — 750 250 — 1,000

▎ 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.