Storage tanks in Watertown

The Department has 92 facilities on the tank register at a Watertown address — 0.7% of the state total — carrying 351 tanks, of which 32 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 Watertown the split is:

22 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 Watertown

71 of the 92 facilities in Watertown have at least one tank recorded as bare or asphalt-coated steel — 77.2%. 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 Watertown

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 Watertown?

92 facilities are on the register in Watertown, 71 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 Watertown

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

Towns with a comparable register

• Branford 105
• New Milford 105
• Southington 104
• Westport 104
• Bloomfield 99
• Vernon 99
• Naugatuck 94
• Windsor Locks 87
• Wethersfield 85
• Glastonbury 81
• Plainville 81
• Willimantic 79
• Suffield 71

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.