Hazardous Substance

83 of Connecticut’s 12,749 registered tank facilities hold this — 0.7%, with 16 tanks still in use.

What it is here

Hazardous Substance is a category the state uses for tanks holding regulated substances other than fuel. The file does not say which substance.

Bare steel among these

51 of the 83 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 61.4%. That is the construction the federal upgrade rules were written to replace: unprotected steel in wet ground corrodes, and corrosion is how a tank starts leaking.

A bare-steel tank on the record is not a leak and not a breach — many are long closed, and the file records the construction, not the condition. It is simply the one physical fact in these files that bears on risk. Why this is the number worth knowing.

Where they are

What the Department’s other files record among these

These are counts of records, not judgements. A violation entry is one finding at one inspection; a red tag stops deliveries until a problem is fixed and says nothing about today; a release is a report, with no measurement of what was spilled or how far it went. Which facility carries which is on its own record, one search away. What each of these actually is · how a reported release is recorded.

A tank on a property in Connecticut?

83 facilities are on the register in Connecticut, 51 with bare-steel tanks recorded. This site tells you a record exists; it is not an assessment. Tell us the address and we pass the request to environmental consultants and tank contractors working in Connecticut.

We take no commission and we recommend no firm. We have no arrangement with any contractor or consultant today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of them

The other substances

• Gasoline 5,100
• Diesel 3,622
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) 3,383
• Not stated 321
• Used Oil 194