LPST sites in Polk County

The Commission has recorded 74 leaking petroleum storage tank cases in Polk County — 0.2% of the Texas total — and 8 of them have no closure date.

The open cases

8 of the 74 cases in Polk County are still open — 10.8%. The oldest of them was reported in 1992, and 6 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 Polk County the pattern follows the state’s:

Tanks still in the ground in Polk County

The Commission’s other file — delivery certificates — records 117 storage tanks in Polk County, of which 117 are marked in use. 55 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 Polk County

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

74 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Polk County, 8 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 Polk County

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

Counties with a comparable record

• Wood 82
• Jasper 80
• Wharton 80
• Cherokee 78
• Hopkins 77
• Anderson 76
• Hardin 74
• Kerr 72
• Cooke 71
• Howard 70
• Lamar 70
• Cass 66
• Walker 66

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.