Storage tanks in Newtown

The Department has 50 facilities on the tank register at a Newtown address — 0.4% of the state total — carrying 209 tanks, of which 36 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 Newtown the split is:

9 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 Newtown

23 of the 50 facilities in Newtown have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 46.0%. 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 in Newtown

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 Newtown?

50 facilities are on the register in Newtown, 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 Newtown

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

Towns with a comparable register

• Litchfield 53
• Winsted 53
• East Windsor 52
• Wolcott 52
• Colchester 51
• Avon 50
• East Haven 50
• Brookfield 47
• Middlebury 46
• Stafford Springs 46
• Ellington 45
• Mystic 45
• Clinton 44

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.