Storage tanks in New Canaan

The Department has 41 facilities on the tank register at a New Canaan address — 0.3% of the state total — carrying 205 tanks, of which 33 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 New Canaan the split is:

13 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 New Canaan

23 of the 41 facilities in New Canaan have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 56.1%. 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 New Canaan

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 Canaan?

41 facilities are on the register in New Canaan, 23 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 New Canaan

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

Towns with a comparable register

• Mystic 45
• Clinton 44
• Berlin 43
• Bethel 43
• Stonington 43
• Monroe 42
• Madison 41
• Westbrook 39
• Niantic 38
• Plainfield 38
• Tolland 38
• Terryville 37
• Plantsville 36

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.