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Underground storage tanks & leak sites in Columbia County, NY
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.
283registered tank facilities
224open tanks
833closed tanks
316leak incidents on record
4cleanups still open
4 leak cleanups in
Columbia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DARROW SCHOOL | New Lebanon | 7 / 15 | Open UST(s) | NY37313 |
| LOVE'S TRAVEL STOP # 611 | CANAAN | 7 / 0 | Open UST(s) | NY505776 |
| CANAAN TRUCK STOP | CANAAN | 6 / 3 | Open UST(s) | NY36003 |
| TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL | Craryville | 6 / 0 | Open UST(s) | NY397970 |
| GERMANTOWN XTRA MART | GERMANTOWN | 5 / 3 | Open UST(s) | NY35320 |
| CHATHAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | CHATHAM | 4 / 11 | Open UST(s) | NY34970 |
| MARTINDALE XTRA MART | CRARYVILLE | 4 / 9 | Open UST(s) | NY35530 |
| CHATHAM CITGO | CHATHAM | 4 / 7 | Open UST(s) | NY35652 |
Open leak cleanups — most recently reported
| Site | City | Reported | Substance | EPA record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRICK TAVERN SUNOCO RT 9H @ RT 66 | CLAVERACK | 2001-08-01 | — | NY200934 |
| GETTY RT 82 | WEST TAGHKANIC | 2001-03-29 | — | NY13611 |
| VALLEY OIL RT 9G | GERMANTOWN | 1994-01-12 | — | NY9312035 |
| MERLE OIL RT 9G | GERMANTOWN | 1985-10-02 | — | NY8502436 |
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 283 registered facilities has an unknown number of unregistered ones.
- Open cleanups are the headline. 4 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