LPST sites in Harris County

The Commission has recorded 4,460 leaking petroleum storage tank cases in Harris County — 15.0% of the Texas total — and 181 of them have no closure date.

The open cases

181 of the 4,460 cases in Harris County are still open — 4.1%. The oldest of them was reported in 1984, and 119 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 Harris County the pattern follows the state’s:

Tanks still in the ground in Harris County

The Commission’s other file — delivery certificates — records 6,874 storage tanks in Harris County, of which 6,834 are marked in use. 2,798 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 Harris County

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

4,460 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Harris County, 181 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 Harris County

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

By decade in Harris County

• Harris County cases reported in the 1980s — 548
• Harris County cases reported in the 1990s — 2,382
• Harris County cases reported in the 2000s — 625
• Harris County cases reported in the 2010s — 476
• Harris County cases reported in the 2020s — 202

Counties with a comparable record

• Dallas 3,067
• Tarrant 1,920
• Bexar 1,842
• Travis 815
• Nueces 753
• Jefferson 619
• El Paso 612
• Hidalgo 579
• Lubbock 432
• Cameron 401
• Denton 396
• Gregg 394
• Galveston 370

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.