# lpst — Texas leaking petroleum storage tank sites

> Look up any of the 29,830 LPST cases and 43,273 storage tanks the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality publishes. 1,078 cases are still open.

## Has this Texas site had a tank leak?

Type the LPST case number, the TCEQ facility number, or the site name. **29,830** leak cases and **43,273** registered tanks — and a search returns both for the same facility, which neither of the Commission’s two files does on its own.

Running this across a portfolio? [Pro access](/pro.md)
resolves a list of addresses, and the [datasets](/data.md) are
published with their prices — from USD 300 a month for
the stream of changes.

### Why anyone looks this up

Before a commercial property changes hands in the United States, the buyer
commissions a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment under ASTM E1527 — the search required by the federal All Appropriate Inquiries rule (40 CFR Part 312) before a buyer can claim the landowner liability protections that CERCLA offers. Part of that search is the state’s tank records:
if a leak was reported at the address and never closed, the buyer needs to
know before signing, not after.

Texas publishes the answer in two halves. One file lists the leak cases;
another lists the tanks. Neither says whether a site with an open case still
has tanks in the ground — that number is
**404**, and it only exists once the two files are
joined on the facility number.

### The shape of the record

1,078 of 29,830 cases — 3.6% — have no closure
date. The oldest case on file was reported in **1971**. And
the decade that dominates is not the one people expect:

| Reported in | LPST cases | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 3 | 0.0% |
| 1980s | 3,615 | 12.1% |
| 1990s | 17,926 | 60.1% |
| 2000s | 3,061 | 10.3% |
| 2010s | 2,603 | 8.7% |
| 2020s | 1,266 | 4.2% |

Six in ten Texas cases were reported in the 1990s. That is not a decade of
worse leaks — it is the decade the federal upgrade deadline fell, when
owners had to dig up or replace hundreds of thousands of tanks, and digging a
tank up is how a leak gets found. [The decades, and what
each one was](/decade.md).

### What this site will not tell you

It records that a case exists and whether it has a closure date. It says
nothing about soil, groundwater, extent, or what a property is worth —
because the file says nothing about them either. No page here calls a site
polluted.

TCEQ publications are not copyrighted, and you may download and reproduce them yourself as long as you don’t alter the content; the agency’s site content is « considered public domain », and it asks only for acknowledgment. Its logo is not public domain, and appears nowhere here.

[All 82 counties](/county.md) · [The 1,078 open cases](/open.md) · [The tank register](/tanks.md) · [By decade](/decade.md) · [How this site is built](/about.md)

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Página: https://lpst.pages.dev/
Fonte: Leaking Petroleum Storage Tank Sites and PST Delivery Certificates — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Recolha: 2026-08-21