Diesel in Meriden

50 of the 238 tank facilities in Meriden — 21.0% — hold diesel.

How this group compares

Meriden holds 1.4% of Connecticut’s 3,622 diesel facilities, while holding 1.9% of the register overall — so it is under-represented in this one.

Diesel is found at filling stations, but also at depots, garages and any site that fuels its own vehicles.

59 of these tanks are still in use.

Bare steel among these

24 of the 50 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 48.0%. 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 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 Meriden?

50 facilities are on the register in Meriden, 24 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 238 facilities in Meriden, and every diesel facility in Connecticut.

Other groups of a similar size

• Gasoline — Stratford 52
• Diesel — Wallingford 52
• Gasoline — New London 51
• Diesel — North Haven 51
• Diesel — Torrington 51
• Gasoline — Vernon 51
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — New Britain 50
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — Hamden 49
• Gasoline — Farmington 48
• Gasoline — Windsor 48
• Diesel — West Haven 47