Does an open LUST cleanup near a Kansas 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: 1,478 of Kansas's 10,973 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 Kansas

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

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

10,973leak incidents on record

1,478cleanups still open

9,495closed — No Further Action

13.5%share still open

2019most recent report

Kansas cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Wichita	1,121	140
Topeka	626	48
Salina	267	46
Kansas City	601	44
Parsons	113	41
Hays	140	31
Newton	81	26
Lawrence	217	19
Great Bend	122	18
Emporia	129	16
Winfield	54	16
Manhattan	132	15
Coffeyville	69	15
Russell	54	15
Wellington	40	14
Overland Park	154	13
El Dorado	69	13
Leavenworth	93	11
Mcpherson	74	11
KANSAS CITY	25	11
WICHITA	63	10
Hutchinson	167	9
Liberal	101	9
Junction City	83	9
Pratt	65	9
Derby	30	9
Augusta	26	9
Olathe	134	8
Independence	66	8
Chanute	57	8
Phillipsburg	37	8
Plainville	29	8
TOPEKA	29	8
Dodge City	114	7
Ulysses	80	7
Atchison	65	7
Concordia	40	7
Iola	37	7
Osborne	27	7
Hoisington	22	7

Kansas 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
Sedgwick	1,398	195
Shawnee	725	58
Saline	306	57
Johnson	750	56
Wyandotte	675	54
Labette	198	52
Harvey	139	47
Ellis	177	41
Barton	193	38
Butler	180	38
Reno	259	34
Sumner	100	33
Montgomery	184	30
Douglas	271	28
Cowley	137	28
Riley	150	24
McPherson	137	24
Russell	81	24
Marion	77	20
Lyon	159	19
Leavenworth	157	18
Rice	92	17
Neosho	88	17
Cloud	67	16
Rush	30	15
Dickinson	119	14
Geary	95	13
Pratt	79	13
Rooks	66	13
Osborne	48	13
Seward	125	12
Pottawatomie	95	12
Atchison	80	11
Phillips	64	11
Jefferson	57	11
Ford	152	10
Harper	57	10
Washington	51	10
Barber	46	10
Stafford	46	10

Most recently reported leaks in Kansas

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2019-03-30	Kickapoo Nation Trading Post	Horton	Gasoline (containing <=10% ethanol)	Open
2018-08-13	Pete's #50	FREDONIA	not reported	Open
2018-08-13	Casey's #3758	DOUGLASS	Gasoline	Open
2018-07-30	The Main Stop	ULYSSES	not reported	Open
2018-07-26	Don's Fuel Stop	KANSAS CITY	Diesel Fuel	No Further Action
2018-07-19	JMJE LLC UST Site	Goodland	not reported	No Further Action
2018-07-16	Community First National Bank	JUNCTION CITY	not reported	Open
2018-07-13	USD #229 Stilwell	STILWELL	not reported	No Further Action
2018-07-12	Former Concrete and Supply	Salina	Gasoline	Open
2018-07-11	Wood Oil #47	BONNER SPRINGS	not reported	Open
2018-07-11	Palmer Oil Co.	Lakin	not reported	Open
2018-07-10	Altamont Properties, Inc.	ALTAMONT	not reported	Open
2018-07-09	Mead Aircraft	HUTCHINSON	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-28	Former Wheeling Corrugating Co.	LENEXA	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-27	Douglas Ave. Development	Wichita	gasoline	No Further Action
2018-06-25	Casey's General Store #1151	OVERBROOK	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-20	Denio Automotive LLC	PHILLIPSBURG	not reported	Open
2018-06-18	Quivira 66	LENEXA	gasoline	No Further Action
2018-06-13	Long John Silvers	Liberal	used oil	Open
2018-06-11	Babi and Company	WINFIELD	Gasoline	Open

Screen a specific Kansas 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.

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