Retail Gas Station in Arapahoe County

278 of the 1,256 tank facilities in Arapahoe County — 22.1% — are recorded as retail gas station.

How this group compares

Arapahoe County holds 6.9% of Colorado’s 4,046 retail gas station facilities, while holding 6.4% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this category.

Retail Gas Station means a filling station selling fuel to the public — the kind of site most people picture when they hear « storage tank ».

Between them these facilities carry 1,155 tanks, of which 478 are still in use.

Bare steel among these

38 of the 278 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as asphalt-coated or bare steel — 13.7%. That is the material the federal upgrade rules were written to replace: unprotected steel corrodes, and corrosion is how a tank fails.

It describes what a tank is made of, not what condition it is in, and many such tanks are long closed. Why it is still the number to know.

Petroleum releases among these

219 of the 278 facilities among these have a release on record — 78.8%. Of those, 35 have one that is not yet closed , and 3 have one the State is running itself.

31 of them still have tanks in use.

Colorado records the stage a cleanup has reached, not merely open or closed — characterisation requested, plan being implemented, state lead. That distinction is the useful part, and it is on each facility’s own record. What each stage means.

Which cities

A tank on a property in Arapahoe County?

278 facilities are on the Division’s register in Arapahoe County, 35 with a release not yet closed. This site tells you a record exists; it is not an assessment. Tell us the address and we pass the request to environmental consultants and tank contractors working in Colorado.

We take no commission and we recommend no firm. We have no arrangement with any contractor or consultant today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The facilities

Part of a bigger picture: all 1,256 facilities in Arapahoe County, and every retail gas station facility in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Other — Adams 385
• Retail Gas Station — Jefferson 351
• Retail Gas Station — Adams 326
• Commercial/industrial — Weld 319
• Commercial/industrial — Arapahoe 289
• Other — Arapahoe 287
• Other — Weld 276
• Other — Larimer 246
• Commercial/industrial — Jefferson 233
• Federal Government — El Paso 222
• Retail Gas Station — Weld 210