Does an open LUST cleanup near a Nebraska 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: 867 of Nebraska's 8,723 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 Nebraska

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

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

8,723leak incidents on record

867cleanups still open

7,856closed — No Further Action

9.9%share still open

2019most recent report

Nebraska cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
OMAHA	1,526	268
LINCOLN	867	133
GRAND ISLAND	310	17
NORTH PLATTE	154	15
NORFOLK	190	14
AUBURN	30	8
HASTINGS	152	7
COLUMBUS	133	7
BELLEVUE	115	7
AURORA	50	7
BROKEN BOW	46	7
LA VISTA	21	7
BEATRICE	97	6
YORK	63	6
CHADRON	41	6
KEARNEY	172	5
LEXINGTON	82	5
WAYNE	37	5
CRETE	34	5
GENEVA	27	5
GRETNA	25	5
ELGIN	17	5
WHITECLAY	6	5
ALLIANCE	79	4
MC COOK	73	4
OGALLALA	63	4
NEBRASKA CITY	53	4
KIMBALL	42	4
ALBION	29	4
FALLS CITY	25	4
HERSHEY	18	4
RALSTON	18	4
FREMONT	140	3
SCOTTSBLUFF	113	3
SEWARD	53	3
MINDEN	30	3
ST PAUL	21	3
MEAD	20	3
CRAWFORD	17	3
SARGENT	17	3

Nebraska 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
Douglas	1,594	277
Lancaster	961	140
Hall	367	21
Sarpy	233	21
Lincoln	217	20
Madison	236	17
Gage	137	16
Thurston	48	15
Custer	119	14
Platte	167	13
Dawson	192	12
York	99	11
Buffalo	263	10
Richardson	56	10
Nemaha	44	10
Saunders	122	9
Hamilton	79	9
Dawes	58	9
Adams	174	8
Seward	107	8
Red Willow	81	8
Saline	71	8
Antelope	62	8
Boone	55	8
Sheridan	50	8
Otoe	94	7
Cedar	75	7
Nuckolls	31	7
Dodge	193	6
Cass	103	6
Kimball	71	6
Fillmore	69	6
Dakota	67	6
Thayer	47	6
Pierce	44	6
Howard	36	6
Johnson	26	6
Box Butte	98	5
Keith	87	5
Butler	59	5

Most recently reported leaks in Nebraska

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2019-09-05	Pony Market	Winnebago	Gasoline (containing <=10% ethanol)	No Further Action
2018-08-28	CASEYS GENERAL STORE 2729	LINCOLN	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-08-21	KWIK SHOP 663	LINCOLN	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-08-16	SUPER C	LINCOLN	GASOLINE	Open
2018-08-14	KWIK SHOP 681	LINCOLN	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-08-06	BUTLER CO HEALTH CARE	DAVID CITY	DIESEL FUEL	Open
2018-08-06	KWIK SHOP 664	LA VISTA	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-07-20	AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALTIES	GRAND ISLAND	UNKNOWN	No Further Action
2018-07-17	AMPRIDE	MC COOK	GASOLINE	Open
2018-07-10	KWIK SHOP 0668	OMAHA	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-07-09	THE BUSS STOP (FORMER)	BEATRICE	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-07-09	SCRIBNER GOOD SAMARITAN	SCRIBNER	DIESEL	No Further Action
2018-06-25	AURORA COOP ELEVATOR	ST PAUL	KEROSENE	Open
2018-06-20	PARKVIEW WELL EX-50	GRAND ISLAND	PETROLEUM	No Further Action
2018-06-19	TIDAL GAS COMPANY	KEARNEY	GASOLINE	Open
2018-06-19	RUSSELL SPEEDERS CAR WASH	OMAHA	GASOLINE	No Further Action
2018-06-12	METRO HEALTH FCU TNK SITE	OMAHA	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-12	LOVES TRAVEL STOP	NORTH PLATTE	BIO-DIESEL FUEL	No Further Action
2018-06-12	PILOT FLYING J #686	GRETNA	DIESEL FUEL	Open
2018-05-22	LOVES TRAVEL STOP #676	SYRACUSE	BIODIESEL	No Further Action

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