Does an open LUST cleanup near a New Jersey 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: 4,672 of New Jersey's 16,816 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 New Jersey

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

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

16,816leak incidents on record

4,672cleanups still open

12,144closed — No Further Action

27.8%share still open

2018most recent report

New Jersey cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Newark	564	212
Jersey City	399	160
Paterson	232	88
Elizabeth	206	66
Union	178	50
Clifton	200	49
Woodbridge	165	46
Hamilton	139	45
Camden	118	44
East Orange	86	43
Edison	186	41
Trenton	129	41
Kearny	119	39
Irvington	89	39
Atlantic City	135	36
Linden	123	34
Bayonne	100	33
Cherry Hill	153	31
North Bergen	102	31
Perth Amboy	85	30
Vineland	135	29
Hackensack	120	27
Bloomfield	86	27
Montclair	74	27
Wayne	108	25
Washington Twp	81	24
Paramus	105	23
Pennsauken	98	23
Old Bridge Twp	95	22
Neptune Twp	70	22
Fort Lee	54	22
Newark City	38	22
Union City	68	21
Lodi	53	21
Orange	60	20
Howell	55	20
Franklin Twp	93	19
West Orange	70	19
Hoboken	61	19
North Brunswick Twp	60	19

New Jersey 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
Bergen	2,003	592
Essex	1,549	552
Middlesex	1,527	386
Hudson	1,094	386
Monmouth	1,136	354
Union	1,228	351
Passaic	1,010	287
Camden	901	234
Burlington	772	205
Mercer	733	204
Morris	1,044	203
Atlantic	537	150
Gloucester	412	133
Ocean	598	123
Somerset	616	119
Cumberland	285	87
Hunterdon	310	67
Cape May	304	65
Sussex	339	60
Salem	156	55
Warren	229	50

Most recently reported leaks in New Jersey

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2018-12-14	EM SERGREANT PULP & CHEMICAL CO INC	Clifton	not reported	Open
2018-12-13	HINES ENTERPRISES LUK OIL LAWRENCE	Lawrenceville	not reported	Open
2018-12-13	ELIZABETH USTS	Elizabeth City	not reported	Open
2018-12-12	MAIN ONE MARINA INC	Avon	not reported	Open
2018-12-12	PREAKNESS HILLS COUNTRY CLUB	Wayne	not reported	Open
2018-12-11	EVERGREEN SHIPPING AGENCY (AMERICA)CORP	Jersey City	not reported	Open
2018-12-10	1367 UNION VALLEY RD WEST MILFORD LP	West Milford	not reported	Open
2018-12-06	BLOOMSBURY TRAVELCENTER	Bloomsbury Boro	not reported	Open
2018-12-05	DELTA	East Hanover	not reported	Open
2018-11-30	NJ INSTITUTE OF TECH (NJIT)	Newark City	not reported	Open
2018-11-29	COUNTRYSIDE OIL COMPANY INC	Sandyston	not reported	Open
2018-11-29	ATLANTIS COMMISSION MARKETING LLC	Paterson City	not reported	Open
2018-11-27	RESTLAND MEMORIAL PARK ASSOC	East Hanover Twp	not reported	Open
2018-11-21	ATLANTIS COMMISSION MARKETING LLC	Ridgefield Park	not reported	Open
2018-11-20	HUDSON COUNTY CHROMATE 107	Jersey City	not reported	Open
2018-11-20	407 413 SUMMIT AVENUE	Jersey City	not reported	Open
2018-11-19	PEQUANNOCK TWP H S	Pequannock Twp	not reported	Open
2018-11-15	MONMOUTH SERVICE PLAZA #0558-3521	Wall Twp	not reported	Open
2018-11-15	EAST DOVER MARINA	Toms River	not reported	Open
2018-11-14	RAHWAY CITY HALL FUEL FACILITY	Rahway City	not reported	Open

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