Harris County, reported in the 1990s

2,382 of the 4,460 LPST cases in Harris County — 53.4% — were reported during the 1990s.

How this group compares

Harris County holds 13.3% of the 17,926 Texas cases reported in the 1990s, while holding 15.0% 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.

19 of the 2,382 cases from this decade in Harris County are still open — 0.8%. The oldest of them was reported in 1990, and 0 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.

Which towns

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

2,382 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Harris County, 19 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

Part of a bigger picture: all 4,460 cases in Harris County, and every Texas case from the 1990s.

Other groups of a similar size

• Dallas — the 1990s 1,773
• Bexar — the 1990s 1,133
• Tarrant — the 1990s 1,061
• Harris — the 2000s 625
• Harris — the 1980s 548
• Travis — the 1990s 510
• Harris — the 2010s 476
• Nueces — the 1990s 438
• Dallas — the 1980s 429
• El Paso — the 1990s 400
• Jefferson — the 1990s 357