Does an open LUST cleanup near a Mississippi 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: 1,762 of Mississippi's 4,093 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 Mississippi

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

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

4,093leak incidents on record

1,762cleanups still open

2,331closed — No Further Action

43.0%share still open

2018most recent report

Mississippi cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Jackson	417	136
Meridian	178	56
Gulfport	134	56
Vicksburg	93	51
Pascagoula	82	48
Hattiesburg	99	46
Biloxi	75	39
Columbus	85	34
Tupelo	88	29
Laurel	67	27
Bay Saint Louis	39	24
Greenwood	57	23
Greenville	65	22
Grenada	50	22
Brookhaven	44	22
Moss Point	34	22
Oxford	34	22
Ocean Springs	46	21
Gautier	37	21
Olive Branch	33	21
Picayune	47	20
McComb	44	20
Natchez	55	18
Pearl	57	17
Diberville	29	17
Canton	44	15
Louisville	32	15
Pontotoc	27	15
New Albany	25	15
Pass Christian	23	15
Southaven	30	14
Petal	20	14
Clinton	39	13
Corinth	37	13
Starkville	33	13
Kosciusko	26	13
Philadelphia	36	12
Batesville	25	12
Booneville	21	12
Flowood	18	12

Mississippi 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
Hinds	483	163
Harrison	279	131
Jackson	217	124
Lauderdale	200	62
DeSoto	98	59
Rankin	173	56
Warren	96	51
Forrest	97	47
Hancock	72	44
Lee	120	42
Madison	102	40
Lowndes	90	36
Pike	75	35
Jones	92	34
Washington	91	33
Pearl River	62	30
Leflore	62	27
Panola	47	27
Grenada	52	24
Lamar	48	24
Lincoln	47	23
Lafayette	35	23
Copiah	44	21
Monroe	49	20
Adams	56	18
Alcorn	48	18
Pontotoc	35	17
Winston	35	17
Prentiss	32	17
Marshall	30	17
Yazoo	40	16
Scott	38	16
Sunflower	33	16
Oktibbeha	38	15
Simpson	36	15
Tippah	31	15
Union	28	15
Attala	28	14
Tishomingo	24	14
Holmes	21	14

Most recently reported leaks in Mississippi

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2018-09-26	S L Quick Food Mart	Jackson	not reported	Open
2018-09-20	Murphy Express # 8503	Petal	not reported	Open
2018-09-19	Porter Avenue Shell Station	Biloxi	not reported	Open
2018-09-19	Workman Gas and Oil	Mendenhall	not reported	Open
2018-09-18	Faulkner's Quick Stop	Woodland	not reported	Open
2018-09-17	Lovely Food Mart/Happy Food Mart	Brookhaven	not reported	Open
2018-09-14	Murphy USA #7314	New Albany	not reported	Open
2018-09-13	Highway 49 Shell #33	Gulfport	not reported	Open
2018-09-12	Savanna Expressway	Jackson	not reported	Open
2018-09-11	Hillcrest Service Center	Vicksburg	not reported	Open
2018-09-10	Dees Express #1	Booneville	not reported	Open
2018-09-05	51 Express Circle K	Madison	not reported	Open
2018-08-30	Flowood Shell	Flowood	not reported	Open
2018-08-29	NT Brothers C Store	Belden	not reported	Open
2018-08-29	Gurley's Day & Night	Marks	not reported	Open
2018-08-24	Express Market #5	Horn Lake	not reported	Open
2018-08-24	Bridgetown Market	Nesbit	not reported	Open
2018-08-24	Cefco #521	Pelahatchie	not reported	Open
2018-08-23	W Jackson Chevron	Oxford	not reported	Open
2018-08-23	Murphy Express # 8543	Jackson	not reported	Open

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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 Mississippi — registered facilities, open and closed tanks, county by county — is on the Mississippi 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