Storage tanks in Groton

The Department has 127 facilities on the tank register at a Groton address — 1.0% of the state total — carrying 788 tanks, of which 91 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 Groton the split is:

33 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 Groton

80 of the 127 facilities in Groton have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 63.0%. 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 Groton

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 Groton?

127 facilities are on the register in Groton, 80 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 Groton

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

By substance in Groton

• Diesel in Groton — 54

Towns with a comparable register

• West Haven 161
• Hamden 157
• Greenwich 151
• Enfield 147
• Fairfield 142
• Norwich 133
• North Haven 130
• New London 124
• Newington 121
• Cheshire 120
• Shelton 120
• Windsor 116
• South Windsor 115

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.