Harris County, reported in the 2000s

625 of the 4,460 LPST cases in Harris County — 14.0% — were reported during the 2000s.

How this group compares

Harris County holds 20.4% of the 3,061 Texas cases reported in the 2000s, while holding 15.0% of all Texas cases — so it is over-represented in this decade.

The 2000s were after the deadline, with the worst of the old tanks already gone.

24 of the 625 cases from this decade in Harris County are still open — 3.8%. The oldest of them was reported in 2001, 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?

625 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Harris County, 24 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 2000s.

Other groups of a similar size

• Harris — the 1990s 2,382
• Dallas — the 1990s 1,773
• Bexar — the 1990s 1,133
• Tarrant — the 1990s 1,061
• 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