Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) in Middletown

53 of the 170 tank facilities in Middletown — 31.2% — hold heating oil(on-site consumption).

How this group compares

Middletown holds 1.6% of Connecticut’s 3,383 heating oil(on-site consumption) facilities, while holding 1.3% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this one.

Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) is heating oil kept for the building it stands under — schools, churches, apartment blocks, offices. These are not commercial fuel sites, and they are the part of the register the public least expects to find.

43 of these tanks are still in use.

Bare steel among these

39 of the 53 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 73.6%. 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 Middletown?

53 facilities are on the register in Middletown, 39 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 170 facilities in Middletown, and every heating oil(on-site consumption) facility in Connecticut.

Other groups of a similar size

• Gasoline — Branford 55
• Diesel — Milford 55
• Gasoline — South Windsor 55
• Diesel — Groton 54
• Diesel — West Hartford 54
• Diesel — Manchester 53
• Gasoline — Norwich 53
• Gasoline — North Haven 52
• Gasoline — Stratford 52
• Diesel — Wallingford 52
• Gasoline — New London 51