LPST sites in Wharton County

The Commission has recorded 80 leaking petroleum storage tank cases in Wharton County — 0.3% of the Texas total — and 3 of them have no closure date.

The open cases

3 of the 80 cases in Wharton County are still open — 3.8%. The oldest of them was reported in 2011, and 2 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 Wharton County the pattern follows the state’s:

Tanks still in the ground in Wharton County

The Commission’s other file — delivery certificates — records 122 storage tanks in Wharton County, of which 122 are marked in use. 34 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 Wharton County

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

80 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Wharton County, 3 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 Wharton County

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

Counties with a comparable record

• Rusk 87
• Henderson 85
• Jim Wells 83
• Fayette 82
• Wise 82
• Wood 82
• Jasper 80
• Cherokee 78
• Hopkins 77
• Anderson 76
• Hardin 74
• Polk 74
• Kerr 72

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.