Montgomery County, reported in the 1990s

126 of the 276 LPST cases in Montgomery County — 45.7% — were reported during the 1990s.

How this group compares

Montgomery County holds 0.7% of the 17,926 Texas cases reported in the 1990s, while holding 0.9% 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.

1 of the 126 cases from this decade in Montgomery County are still open — 0.8%. The oldest of them was reported in 1997, 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?

126 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Montgomery County, 1 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 276 cases in Montgomery County, and every Texas case from the 1990s.

Other groups of a similar size

• Bell — the 1990s 176
• Bexar — the 2000s 173
• Potter — the 1990s 166
• Mclennan — the 1990s 163
• Collin — the 1990s 153
• Jefferson — the 1980s 132
• Tom Green — the 1990s 122
• Dallas — the 2020s 121
• Brazos — the 1990s 118
• Bowie — the 1990s 117
• Angelina — the 1990s 115