Other in Douglas County

96 of the 495 tank facilities in Douglas County — 19.4% — are recorded as other.

How this group compares

Douglas County holds 1.8% of Colorado’s 5,283 other facilities, while holding 2.5% of the register overall — so it is under-represented in this category.

Other means the Division’s catch-all. It is the largest single category, which is worth knowing before reading anything into it.

Between them these facilities carry 115 tanks, of which 14 are still in use.

Bare steel among these

11 of the 96 facilities among these have at least one tank recorded as asphalt-coated or bare steel — 11.5%. 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 among these

56 of the 96 facilities among these have a release on record — 58.3%. Of those, 1 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.

Which cities

A tank on a property in Douglas County?

96 facilities are on the Division’s register in Douglas County, 1 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 495 facilities in Douglas County, and every other facility in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Lpg Only — Larimer 103
• Emergency Generator Only — El Paso 101
• State/local Government — Weld 99
• State/local Government — El Paso 98
• Other — Pitkin 98
• State/local Government — Adams 96
• Commercial/industrial — Douglas 95
• Other — Grand 94
• Other — Eagle 90
• Lpg Only — Garfield 90
• Lpg Only — Arapahoe 88