LPST sites in Wichita County

The Commission has recorded 288 leaking petroleum storage tank cases in Wichita County — 1.0% of the Texas total — and 14 of them have no closure date.

The open cases

14 of the 288 cases in Wichita County are still open — 4.9%. The oldest of them was reported in 1991, 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 Wichita County the pattern follows the state’s:

Tanks still in the ground in Wichita County

The Commission’s other file — delivery certificates — records 223 storage tanks in Wichita County, of which 223 are marked in use. 147 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 Wichita County

Buying, lending on, or insuring a site here?

288 leak cases are on the Commission’s file in Wichita County, 14 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 Wichita County

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

By decade in Wichita County

• Wichita County cases reported in the 1990s — 192

Counties with a comparable record

• Denton 396
• Gregg 394
• Galveston 370
• Collin 337
• Smith 331
• Brazoria 329
• Taylor 294
• Bell 277
• Montgomery 276
• Mclennan 266
• Ector 264
• Potter 242
• Bowie 208

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.