Storage tanks in Archuleta County

The Division has 102 facilities on the register in Archuleta County — 0.5% of the state total — carrying 233 tanks, of which 61 are still in use.

What kind of sites these are

A tank on this register is not necessarily a filling station. In Archuleta County the register breaks down as:

1 of them exist only to run a standby generator, and 29 hold propane rather than petroleum. Neither behaves like a petrol station, and neither is what people picture.

Bare steel in Archuleta County

24 of the 102 facilities in Archuleta County have at least one tank recorded as asphalt-coated or bare steel — 23.5%. 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 in Archuleta County

40 of the 102 facilities in Archuleta County have a release on record — 39.2%. Of those, 3 have one that is not yet closed , and 1 have one the State is running itself.

1 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.

Cities and towns in Archuleta County

Cities do not get pages of their own: a city page would be a subset of this one, and two pages describing the same facilities is how a site starts repeating itself.

A tank on a property in Archuleta County?

102 facilities are on the Division’s register in Archuleta County, 3 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 on record in Archuleta County

Counties with a comparable register

• Yuma 122
• Rio Blanco 121
• Kit Carson 119
• Park 114
• Alamosa 112
• Prowers 110
• Lincoln 104
• Teller 102
• Elbert 89
• Washington 87
• Huerfano 86
• Conejos 75
• Clear Creek 74

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county you are on, so each of the 56 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.