Does an open LUST cleanup near a Florida property affect a sale?

An open cleanup on or near a parcel is what a lender's Phase I environmental site assessment flags, usually weeks into a deal. The public record is available on day one: 10,272 of Florida's 34,943 recorded leak incidents are still open, and each one has a location, a status and a reporting date.

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Leaking underground storage tanks in Florida

Name: Florida leaking underground storage tank (LUST) incidents (EPA UST Finder)
Creator: UST Check
License: https://ustcheck.com/tos/

Leak (LUST) incidents Florida's tank program has reported to EPA — what is still in cleanup, and what the state has closed. Data vintage 2024-12-04.

34,943leak incidents on record

10,272cleanups still open

24,671closed — No Further Action

29.4%share still open

2018most recent report

Florida cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
MIAMI	2,516	741
JACKSONVILLE	1,989	656
TAMPA	2,128	646
ORLANDO	1,632	536
SAINT PETERSBURG	720	292
TALLAHASSEE	519	193
PENSACOLA	724	189
FORT LAUDERDALE	724	186
FORT MYERS	497	152
WEST PALM BEACH	631	145
CLEARWATER	543	145
OCALA	322	144
LAKELAND	484	142
PANAMA CITY	376	140
SARASOTA	587	122
FORT PIERCE	358	108
BRADENTON	311	106
GAINESVILLE	335	105
DAYTONA BEACH	252	105
POMPANO BEACH	316	104
NAPLES	325	89
MELBOURNE	231	86
KISSIMMEE	245	82
MIAMI BEACH	264	79
LAKE CITY	172	78
HIALEAH	300	77
LARGO	228	77
SANFORD	200	76
VERO BEACH	210	65
OKEECHOBEE	195	65
SAINT AUGUSTINE	214	61
BOCA RATON	234	53
COCOA	139	52
PINELLAS PARK	139	52
WINTER PARK	139	51
LEESBURG	137	49
KEY WEST	80	47
BROOKSVILLE	153	46
PLANT CITY	206	45
HOMESTEAD	163	45

Florida counties with the most open cleanups

EPA's county rollup. Each county page adds the tank inventory — registered facilities, open and closed tanks.

County	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Miami-Dade	3,918	1,138
Hillsborough	2,828	795
Pinellas	2,148	718
Orange	2,116	679
Duval	2,076	679
Broward	2,313	570
Palm Beach	2,335	556
Volusia	827	318
Polk	1,402	311
Brevard	871	295
Lee	868	263
Escambia	879	249
Bay	519	196
Leon	525	193
Marion	500	192
Manatee	537	187
Seminole	576	157
Lake	444	144
Sarasota	761	143
Alachua	475	135
St. Lucie	447	125
Collier	425	116
Osceola	361	115
Monroe	219	108
Pasco	560	107
Jackson	240	103
Okaloosa	331	96
Columbia	183	81
St. Johns	309	75
Gadsden	201	73
Indian River	262	70
Charlotte	229	63
Hernando	234	62
Okeechobee	183	60
Washington	123	56
Santa Rosa	241	53
Walton	128	53
Putnam	209	52
Martin	312	50
Clay	243	49

Most recently reported leaks in Florida

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2018-09-20	NEWSOME PROPERTY	DADE CITY	not reported	No Further Action
2018-09-19	HOMOSASSA SPRINGS MARINA	HOMOSASSA	not reported	Open
2018-09-18	STATELINE DISPOSAL	CALLAHAN	not reported	Open
2018-09-18	SPEEDWAY #6897	SARASOTA	not reported	Open
2018-09-17	GATE #1207	SAINT AUGUSTINE	not reported	Open
2018-09-17	STATELINE DISPOSAL	CALLAHAN	not reported	Open
2018-09-14	CIRCLE K #2721150	BALDWIN	not reported	Open
2018-09-11	LAS OLAS WALK	FORT LAUDERDALE	not reported	No Further Action
2018-09-07	7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #32617	DAYTONA BEACH	not reported	Open
2018-09-06	7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #32756	PALM BAY	not reported	Open
2018-09-05	ENTERPRISE LEASING CO OF FL LLC	JACKSONVILLE	not reported	Open
2018-08-21	GATE #1199	JACKSONVILLE	not reported	Open
2018-08-17	CITGO MAINGATE	KISSIMMEE	not reported	Open
2018-08-14	SUGAR FARMS COOPERATIVE	BELLE GLADE	not reported	Open
2018-08-14	TUPPERWARE CORP	KISSIMMEE	not reported	Open
2018-08-07	CIRCLE K #2721413	SAINT AUGUSTINE	not reported	Open
2018-08-05	ATLANTIC AVIATION	WEST PALM BEACH	not reported	No Further Action
2018-07-26	PELICAN PIER MARINA	MARCO ISLAND	not reported	Open
2018-07-26	SUNSHINE FOOD MART #437	PANAMA CITY	not reported	Open
2018-07-25	LLB CONVENIENCE & GAS INC	ORLANDO	not reported	Open

Screen a specific Florida address

State counts set the context; a deal needs the record around one parcel — registered tanks on it, facilities within 500 and 1,500 feet, leak cleanups with status and distance, every line cited to the official record. Same data a Phase I environmental assessment starts from, in your hands before the offer.

Screen an address — $49

Tank inventory for Florida — registered facilities, open and closed tanks, county by county — is on the Florida county tables.

This 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. EPA's LUST layer carries a county field for some states and not others, so city is the primary breakdown here; the county table is EPA's own county rollup.

source: EPA UST Finder EPA data vintage 2024-12-04