Does an open LUST cleanup near a Louisiana 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: 594 of Louisiana's 5,669 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 Louisiana

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

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

5,669leak incidents on record

594cleanups still open

5,075closed — No Further Action

10.5%share still open

2019most recent report

Louisiana 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
Caddo	378	48
Calcasieu	295	41
Webster	83	33
Tangipahoa	121	32
Lafayette	291	31
Ouachita	235	29
Orleans	560	28
Bossier	135	25
Rapides	134	20
Jefferson	486	19
Beauregard	44	17
East Baton Rouge	536	16
St. Landry	156	12
St. Martin	85	12
Vermilion	55	12
Evangeline	47	12
Iberia	91	11
St. Mary	78	11
Avoyelles	46	11
St. Tammany	212	9
Livingston	100	8
Acadia	76	8
Vernon	39	8
Richland	36	8
Ascension	106	7
Union	25	7
Terrebonne	140	6
St. John the Baptist	45	6
Washington	37	6
Sabine	23	6
Franklin	16	6
Grant	14	6
Lafourche	88	5
West Baton Rouge	40	5
De Soto	37	5
Morehouse	30	5
Claiborne	23	5
Cameron	36	4
Natchitoches	33	4
Winn	29	4

Most recently reported leaks in Louisiana

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2019-12-31	Rick's	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-31	Rick's	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-31	City of Gretna	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-26	Discount Zone	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-18	The Magnolia Station	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-17	S Mart 1	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-13	Coast # 9018	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-10	Oak Grove Exxon	—	2-Methylnaphtalene	No Further Action
2019-12-10	Rende's Quick Stop #4	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-06	RaceTrac #488	—	not reported	Open
2019-12-03	Circle K #9717	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-22	Circle K #6804	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-22	Circle K Stores Inc #2723991	—	not reported	No Further Action
2019-11-21	CMSI #1427	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-21	CMSI #1427	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-14	Cousins Fuel Mart Inc	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-11	Delta Mini Mart #13	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-11	McKee's Grocery	—	not reported	No Further Action
2019-11-01	Raeco of Thibodaux	—	not reported	Open
2019-11-01	Raeco of Thibodaux	—	not reported	Open

Screen a specific Louisiana 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 Louisiana — registered facilities, open and closed tanks, county by county — is on the Louisiana 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