Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) in New Britain

50 of the 216 tank facilities in New Britain — 23.1% — hold heating oil(on-site consumption).

How this group compares

New Britain holds 1.5% of Connecticut’s 3,383 heating oil(on-site consumption) facilities, while holding 1.7% of the register overall — so it is under-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.

28 of these tanks are still in use.

Bare steel among these

41 of the 50 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 82.0%. 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 New Britain?

50 facilities are on the register in New Britain, 41 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 216 facilities in New Britain, and every heating oil(on-site consumption) facility in Connecticut.

Other groups of a similar size

• Diesel — Wallingford 52
• Gasoline — New London 51
• Diesel — North Haven 51
• Diesel — Torrington 51
• Gasoline — Vernon 51
• Diesel — Meriden 50
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — Hamden 49
• Gasoline — Farmington 48
• Gasoline — Windsor 48
• Diesel — West Haven 47
• Heating Oil(on-site Consumption) — East Hartford 46