Storage tanks in Otero County

The Division has 152 facilities on the register in Otero County — 0.8% of the state total — carrying 403 tanks, of which 105 are still in use.

What kind of sites these are

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

1 of them exist only to run a standby generator, and 10 hold propane rather than petroleum. Neither behaves like a petrol station, and neither is what people picture.

Bare steel in Otero County

63 of the 152 facilities in Otero County have at least one tank recorded as asphalt-coated or bare steel — 41.4%. 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 Otero County

66 of the 152 facilities in Otero County have a release on record — 43.4%. Of those, 1 have one that is not yet closed , and 1 have one the State is running itself.

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 Otero 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 Otero County?

152 facilities are on the Division’s register in Otero 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 on record in Otero County

Counties with a comparable register

• Chaffee 187
• Delta 185
• Logan 184
• Summit 178
• Rio Grande 168
• Broomfield 157
• Gunnison 155
• Las Animas 131
• Moffat 130
• Yuma 122
• Rio Blanco 121
• Kit Carson 119
• Park 114

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.