Galveston County, reported in the 1990s

198 of the 370 LPST cases in Galveston County — 53.5% — were reported during the 1990s.

How this group compares

Galveston County holds 1.1% of the 17,926 Texas cases reported in the 1990s, while holding 1.2% of all Texas cases — so it is under-represented in this decade.

The 1990s were the decade the federal deadline fell. Owners had to remove or upgrade their tanks, and pulling a tank out of the ground is how a leak gets discovered. Six of every ten Texas cases were reported in these ten years.

None of the 198 cases from this decade in Galveston County is still open: the Commission has recorded a closure date for every one of them.

Which towns

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

198 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Galveston County. 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

Part of a bigger picture: all 370 cases in Galveston County, and every Texas case from the 1990s.

Other groups of a similar size

• Tarrant — the 1980s 243
• Tarrant — the 2000s 236
• Smith — the 1990s 215
• Tarrant — the 2010s 209
• Denton — the 1990s 208
• Harris — the 2020s 202
• Wichita — the 1990s 192
• Brazoria — the 1990s 182
• Taylor — the 1990s 177
• Bell — the 1990s 176
• Bexar — the 2000s 173