Storage tanks in Mesa County

The Division has 708 facilities on the register in Mesa County — 3.6% of the state total — carrying 1,561 tanks, of which 431 are still in use.

What kind of sites these are

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

7 of them exist only to run a standby generator, and 76 hold propane rather than petroleum. Neither behaves like a petrol station, and neither is what people picture.

Bare steel in Mesa County

174 of the 708 facilities in Mesa County have at least one tank recorded as asphalt-coated or bare steel — 24.6%. 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 Mesa County

388 of the 708 facilities in Mesa County have a release on record — 54.8%. Of those, 30 have one that is not yet closed , and 12 have one the State is running itself.

17 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 Mesa 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 Mesa County?

708 facilities are on the Division’s register in Mesa County, 30 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 Mesa County

By category in Mesa County

• Commercial/industrial in Mesa County — 172
• Other in Mesa County — 207
• Retail Gas Station in Mesa County — 136

Counties with a comparable register

• Denver 2,630
• El Paso 1,871
• Adams 1,578
• Jefferson 1,411
• Arapahoe 1,256
• Weld 1,156
• Larimer 943
• Boulder 707
• Pueblo 630
• Douglas 495
• Garfield 372
• Eagle 316
• La Plata 277

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.