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Underground storage tanks & leak sites in Houghton County, MI
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.
172registered tank facilities
95open tanks
429closed tanks
74leak incidents on record
45cleanups still open
45 leak cleanups in
Houghton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krist Food Mart #32 | CHASSELL | 8 / 9 | Open UST(s) | MI13459 |
| Krist Food Mart #25 | HANCOCK | 7 / 0 | Open UST(s) | MI37190 |
| Krist Food Mart # 17 | HOUGHTON | 5 / 5 | Open UST(s) | MI35 |
| Krist Food Mart #15 | HOUGHTON | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | MI15305 |
| Rowe Oil Co LLC | CALUMET | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | MI13817 |
| Krans Oil Co Inc | LAKE LINDEN | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | MI13255 |
| Daves Hancock Service Inc | HANCOCK | 4 / 6 | Open UST(s) | MI17745 |
| Holiday Stationstore #160 | HANCOCK | 4 / 3 | Open UST(s) | MI12673 |
Open leak cleanups — most recently reported
| Site | City | Reported | Substance | EPA record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kramer Service | Hubbell | 2006-10-11 | Gasoline,Gasoline | MIC-0303-06 |
| Dollar Bay Marathon | Dollar Bay | 2005-10-31 | Gasoline | MIC-0317-05 |
| Kauppi Oil Ent Inc | Calumet | 2005-09-14 | Heating Oil,Gasoline,Gasoline,Heating Oil,Heating Oil,Heating Oil,Gasoline | MIC-0354-05 |
| Houghton Mobil | Houghton | 2004-05-11 | Gasoline | MIC-0179-04 |
| Keweenaw Konvenience | Lake Linden | 2004-04-29 | Gasoline,Other | MIC-0533-04 |
| Keweenaw Konvenience | Lake Linden | 2003-12-22 | Gasoline | MIC-0528-03 |
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 172 registered facilities has an unknown number of unregistered ones.
- Open cleanups are the headline. 45 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