Storage tanks in Canaan

The Department has 31 facilities on the tank register at a Canaan address — 0.2% of the state total — carrying 129 tanks, of which 15 are still in use.

What is stored, and where it sits

An address on this register is a place with a regulated tank, not necessarily a filling station. In Canaan the split is:

4 of them are heating-oil tanks kept for the building above — schools, churches, apartment blocks. They are on the register for the same reason a filling station is, and they surprise people.

Bare steel in Canaan

21 of the 31 facilities in Canaan have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 67.7%. 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 in Canaan

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 Canaan?

31 facilities are on the register in Canaan, 21 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 on record in Canaan

Sites with tanks in use first. 130 rows at most — the whole register is in the search.

Towns with a comparable register

• Niantic 38
• Plainfield 38
• Tolland 38
• Terryville 37
• Plantsville 36
• Prospect 36
• Danielson 33
• Kensington 33
• Somers 33
• Granby 31
• North Franklin 30
• Old Lyme 30
• Uncasville 30

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the town you are on, so each of the 102 town pages is reachable from the others. All of them.