Gasoline in Meriden

103 of the 238 tank facilities in Meriden — 43.3% — hold gasoline.

How this group compares

Meriden holds 2.0% of Connecticut’s 5,100 gasoline facilities, while holding 1.9% of the register overall — so it is over-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.

24 of these tanks are still in use.

Bare steel among these

79 of the 103 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 76.7%. 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 Meriden?

103 facilities are on the register in Meriden, 79 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 gasoline facility in Connecticut.

Other groups of a similar size

• Diesel — Hartford 128
• Gasoline — Stamford 122
• Diesel — New Haven 113
• Gasoline — Danbury 112
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — Bridgeport 110
• Gasoline — New Britain 106
• Gasoline — Manchester 100
• Diesel — Bridgeport 97
• Diesel — Stamford 96
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — Stamford 92
• Gasoline — Wallingford 89