Storage tanks in Custer County
The Division has 44 facilities on the register in Custer County — 0.2% of the state total — carrying 72 tanks, of which 31 are still in use.
What kind of sites these are
A tank on this register is not necessarily a filling station. In Custer County the register breaks down as:
| Facility category | Facilities | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lpg Only | 17 | 38.6% |
| Other | 10 | 22.7% |
| Commercial/industrial | 6 | 13.6% |
| State/local Government | 5 | 11.4% |
| Retail Gas Station | 4 | 9.1% |
| Farm/residential | 1 | 2.3% |
| Airport | 1 | 2.3% |
0 of them exist only to run a standby generator, and 17 hold propane rather than petroleum. Neither behaves like a petrol station, and neither is what people picture.
Bare steel in Custer County
8 of the 44 facilities in Custer County have at least one tank recorded as asphalt-coated or bare steel — 18.2%. 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 Custer County
16 of the 44 facilities in Custer County have a release on record — 36.4%. Of those, 0 have one that is not yet closed .
None of the open cases is at a facility with tanks still 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 Custer County
| City | Facilities | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Westcliffe | 35 | 79.5% |
| Wetmore | 6 | 13.6% |
| Silver Cliff | 2 | 4.5% |
| Rye | 1 | 2.3% |
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 Custer County?
44 facilities are on the Division’s register in Custer County. 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 Custer County
| Facility, as the Division holds it | ID | City | Tanks | In use | First tank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Convenience #6342 | 5304 | Westcliffe | 8 | 5 | — |
| Country Store | 8055 | Silver Cliff | 5 | 4 | — |
| Westcliffe Petroleum Inc | 5312 | Westcliffe | 4 | 4 | — |
| Custer County Road and Bridge | 3750 | Westcliffe | 6 | 2 | — |
| Custer County School Dist C-1 | 8434 | Westcliffe | 4 | 2 | — |
| Silver West Airport | 14618 | Westcliffe | 3 | 2 | — |
| Wetmore Shop Custer Co | 10959 | Wetmore | 2 | 2 | — |
| Aspen Acres Campground | 18773 | Rye | 1 | 1 | — |
| Broll Lp Gas, Llc | 21024 | Westcliffe | 1 | 1 | — |
| Central Building Supply | 18988 | Westcliffe | 1 | 1 | — |
| De Luca Gas - Westcliffe | 19795 | Westcliffe | 1 | 1 | — |
| Mar Gas Propane | 16470 | Westcliffe | 3 | 1 | — |
| Norup Gas Inc | 16225 | Westcliffe | 1 | 1 | — |
| Rocky Mountain Lp | 19819 | Westcliffe | 1 | 1 | — |
| San Isabel Services - Westcliffe - Dcc Propane | 20457 | Westcliffe | 1 | 1 | — |
| Valley Ace Hardware | 18571 | Westcliffe | 3 | 1 | — |
| Western Tires | 18930 | Westcliffe | 2 | 1 | — |
| Bison Propane | 16633 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Bison Propane Temporary Bulk | 16808 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Broll Lp Gas Llc | 20788 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cdot Westcliffe | 7818 | Westcliffe | 2 | 0 | — |
| Coleman Ranches | 2069 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Custer County Bank | 13929 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Custer County Clinic and Hospita | 6995 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Custer County Medical Clinic | 13354 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Custer County Road & Bridge | 12472 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Custer County Shop | 4961 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Custer County Wetmore Shop | 1166 | Wetmore | 2 | 0 | — |
| Don Camper Inc | 5711 | Westcliffe | 2 | 0 | — |
| Ed Thornton | 14867 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Enxx Propane | 18127 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Garrett Carlson Feed Mill | 12756 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mike Rudder Property | 12062 | Wetmore | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mountaincliffe Ski Resort | 2101 | Westcliffe | 3 | 0 | — |
| Naquette Drilling & Excavating | 7463 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Naquette Drilling & Excavating | 13702 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| Norup | 16827 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Phillip 66 | 14117 | Westcliffe | 0 | 0 | — |
| R & M Service | 2072 | Silver Cliff | 5 | 0 | — |
| Sangre de Cristo Electric | 10727 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Station - Mike Rudder Property | 12307 | Wetmore | 0 | 0 | — |
| Usina Auto Truck | 15925 | Westcliffe | 1 | 0 | — |
| Wetmore Grocery | 17089 | Wetmore | 1 | 0 | — |
| Wetmore Mountain Goods | 17016 | Wetmore | 1 | 0 | — |
Counties with a comparable register
- Huerfano 86
- Conejos 75
- Clear Creek 74
- Phillips 69
- San Miguel 65
- Lake 62
- Baca 60
- Costilla 52
- Sedgwick 48
- Cheyenne 46
- Bent 45
- Jackson 44
- Ouray 43
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.