Harris County, reported in the 2010s

476 of the 4,460 LPST cases in Harris County — 10.7% — were reported during the 2010s.

How this group compares

Harris County holds 18.3% of the 2,603 Texas cases reported in the 2010s, while holding 15.0% of all Texas cases — so it is over-represented in this decade.

The 2010s were the era of double-walled tanks and continuous monitoring.

41 of the 476 cases from this decade in Harris County are still open — 8.6%. The oldest of them was reported in 2011, and 28 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

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476 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Harris County, 41 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 2010s.

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
• Nueces — the 1990s 438
• Dallas — the 1980s 429
• El Paso — the 1990s 400
• Jefferson — the 1990s 357
• Bexar — the 1980s 354