Gasoline in Bristol

81 of the 227 tank facilities in Bristol — 35.7% — hold gasoline.

How this group compares

Bristol holds 1.6% of Connecticut’s 5,100 gasoline facilities, while holding 1.8% of the register overall — so it is under-represented in this one.

Gasoline is the commonest substance in the register and the reason most of these facilities exist — filling stations. Petrol tanks are the ones the federal upgrade rules were written for.

34 of these tanks are still in use.

Bare steel among these

67 of the 81 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 82.7%. 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.

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 Bristol?

81 facilities are on the register in Bristol, 67 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.

The facilities

Part of a bigger picture: all 227 facilities in Bristol, and every gasoline facility in Connecticut.

Other groups of a similar size

• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — Stamford 92
• Gasoline — Wallingford 89
• Diesel — Waterbury 89
• Gasoline — Milford 86
• Gasoline — East Hartford 84
• Diesel — Norwalk 84
• Gasoline — Hamden 77
• Gasoline — Norwalk 77
• Gasoline — Torrington 77
• Gasoline — Enfield 76
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — Meriden 76