LPST sites in Bell County

The Commission has recorded 277 leaking petroleum storage tank cases in Bell County — 0.9% of the Texas total — and 3 of them have no closure date.

The open cases

3 of the 277 cases in Bell County are still open — 1.1%. The oldest of them was reported in 2002, and 1 were reported in 2015 or later.

That spread matters more than the count. An open case from the 1990s usually means a long remediation that was never formally closed; one from last year means something recent. The file records the two dates and nothing else — not the substance, not the extent, not what is left to do. How to read an open case.

When they were reported

A reporting date is not the date a tank started leaking — it is the date someone found out. In Bell County the pattern follows the state’s:

Tanks still in the ground in Bell County

The Commission’s other file — delivery certificates — records 527 storage tanks in Bell County, of which 527 are marked in use. 128 of them sit at a facility that also has a leak case on record.

That last number appears in neither file: it only exists once the two are joined on the facility number, which is what this site does. What the tank register holds.

Towns in Bell County

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

277 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Bell County, 3 of them still open. This site tells you a case exists; it is not an assessment. Tell us the address and we pass the request to environmental consultants who do Phase I work in Texas.

We take no commission and we recommend no consultant. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The cases on record in Bell County

Open cases first, then closed. 130 rows at most — the whole file is in the search.

By decade in Bell County

• Bell County cases reported in the 1990s — 176

Counties with a comparable record

• Gregg 394
• Galveston 370
• Collin 337
• Smith 331
• Brazoria 329
• Taylor 294
• Wichita 288
• Montgomery 276
• Mclennan 266
• Ector 264
• Potter 242
• Bowie 208
• Fort Bend 203

Neighbours by the size of their record, not a ranking: the list slides with the county you are on, so each of the 82 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.