Has this Texas site had a tank leak?
Type the LPST case number, the TCEQ facility number, or the site name. 29,830 leak cases and 43,273 registered tanks — and a search returns both for the same facility, which neither of the Commission’s two files does on its own.
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Why anyone looks this up
Before a commercial property changes hands in the United States, the buyer commissions a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment under ASTM E1527 — the search required by the federal All Appropriate Inquiries rule (40 CFR Part 312) before a buyer can claim the landowner liability protections that CERCLA offers. Part of that search is the state’s tank records: if a leak was reported at the address and never closed, the buyer needs to know before signing, not after.
Texas publishes the answer in two halves. One file lists the leak cases; another lists the tanks. Neither says whether a site with an open case still has tanks in the ground — that number is 404, and it only exists once the two files are joined on the facility number.
The shape of the record
1,078 of 29,830 cases — 3.6% — have no closure date. The oldest case on file was reported in 1971. And the decade that dominates is not the one people expect:
| Reported in | LPST cases | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 3 | 0.0% |
| 1980s | 3,615 | 12.1% |
| 1990s | 17,926 | 60.1% |
| 2000s | 3,061 | 10.3% |
| 2010s | 2,603 | 8.7% |
| 2020s | 1,266 | 4.2% |
Six in ten Texas cases were reported in the 1990s. That is not a decade of worse leaks — it is the decade the federal upgrade deadline fell, when owners had to dig up or replace hundreds of thousands of tanks, and digging a tank up is how a leak gets found. The decades, and what each one was.
What this site will not tell you
It records that a case exists and whether it has a closure date. It says nothing about soil, groundwater, extent, or what a property is worth — because the file says nothing about them either. No page here calls a site polluted.
TCEQ publications are not copyrighted, and you may download and reproduce them yourself as long as you don’t alter the content; the agency’s site content is « considered public domain », and it asks only for acknowledgment. Its logo is not public domain, and appears nowhere here.
All 82 counties · The 1,078 open cases · The tank register · By decade · How this site is built