Storage tanks in Portland

The Department has 59 facilities on the tank register at a Portland address — 0.5% of the state total — carrying 216 tanks, of which 37 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 Portland the split is:

12 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 Portland

37 of the 59 facilities in Portland have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 62.7%. 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 in Portland

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 Portland?

59 facilities are on the register in Portland, 37 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 Portland

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

Towns with a comparable register

• Ridgefield 66
• Rocky Hill 65
• Darien 63
• Wilton 62
• Trumbull 61
• Ansonia 59
• Derby 59
• Putnam 58
• Simsbury 58
• Cromwell 57
• Thomaston 57
• Guilford 56
• Woodbury 55

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.