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Underground storage tanks & leak sites in Howard County, MD
Every figure below is from EPA UST Finder — the EPA-compiled national registry of state-reported underground storage tanks — county aggregates as published by EPA.
458registered tank facilities
285open tanks
1,315closed tanks
317leak incidents on record
3cleanups still open
3 leak cleanups in
Howard County are still open — the state has not closed the case.
An open cleanup near a property you're buying or lending on is a findable, checkable fact: it appears in a
per-address screen with distance and the registry record.
Largest registered facilities
By open-tank count, from the facility-level registry. Every fact is attributed to the EPA record (linked ID); something wrong — use the correction path in the footer and we'll fix or remove it promptly.
| Facility | City | Open / closed tanks | Status | EPA record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patuxent Institution | Jessup | 9 / 6 | Open UST(s) | MD14814 |
| Dorsey Hall Shell | Ellicott City | 5 / 1 | Open UST(s) | MD2883 |
| Lisbon BP | Lisbon | 5 / 1 | Open UST(s) | MD6022 |
| Sunoco #0653-3244 | Columbia | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | MD3434 |
| Baltimore South Travel Center | Jessup | 4 / 34 | Open UST(s) | MD7304 |
| PG-102 | Ellicott City | 4 / 8 | Open UST(s) | MD7770 |
| PMG 8779 | Elkridge | 4 / 6 | Open UST(s) | MD565 |
| Lisbon Carroll Motor Fuel | Lisbon | 4 / 6 | Open UST(s) | MD704 |
What this means if you're buying or lending here
- "Closed" ≠ clean. A closed tank was taken out of service per the registry — many were closed without soil testing, especially before the late 1990s.
- The registry is incomplete by design. Tanks removed before 1986 and most residential heating-oil tanks were never registered. A county with 458 registered facilities has an unknown number of unregistered ones.
- Open cleanups are the headline. 3 cases in this county are still open; contamination may still be under investigation or remediation — distance from a specific parcel is what matters, and that's a per-address question.
Screen a specific property
This page covers the county. A purchase or loan decision needs the registry around one address: registered tanks at the parcel, every facility within 500 and 1,500 ft, leak cleanups with status and distance — each line cited to the official record.
Screen an address — $49 How it worksThis is a screen of EPA-registered tank and leak records, not an environmental site assessment. State registries are incomplete by design: tanks removed before 1986 and most residential heating-oil tanks were never registered, so a clean screen cannot prove the absence of a tank. "Closed" means a tank was taken out of service per the registry — it does not certify that no contamination remains.
source: EPA UST Finder EPA data vintage 2024-12-04 computed 2026-06-12