Does an open LUST cleanup near a Tennessee 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: 155 of Tennessee's 13,885 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 Tennessee

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

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

13,885leak incidents on record

155cleanups still open

13,730closed — No Further Action

1.1%share still open

2018most recent report

Tennessee cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Memphis	955	21
Knoxville	647	10
Nashville	255	7
Jackson	123	5
Cookeville	100	5
MEMPHIS	689	3
Kingsport	237	3
Cleveland	196	3
Somerville	28	3
Chattanooga	676	2
CHATTANOOGA	201	2
Bristol	101	2
Rogersville	58	2
Oak Ridge	47	2
White Pine	33	2
Kingston	32	2
Brownsville	29	2
Camden	24	2
Goodlettsville	20	2
Henderson	19	2
Counce	15	2
Brentwood	13	2
Stanton	12	2
Joelton	10	2
KNOXVILLE	294	1
Greeneville	155	1
Clarksville	92	1
Athens	85	1
Murfreesboro	73	1
Elizabethton	67	1
Crossville	63	1
Jonesborough	58	1
Newport	57	1
Franklin	55	1
Dandridge	51	1
Columbia	47	1
Lexington	45	1
CLEVELAND	42	1
Collierville	42	1
Dyersburg	41	1

Tennessee 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
Shelby	1,857	26
Knox	1,022	12
Davidson	1,282	9
Hamilton	1,135	6
Putnam	213	6
Madison	177	6
Sullivan	559	5
Bradley	255	4
Williamson	219	4
Dickson	120	4
Haywood	45	4
Sumner	257	3
Anderson	190	3
Jefferson	161	3
Hawkins	155	3
Roane	123	3
Henderson	75	3
Fayette	64	3
Greene	248	2
McMinn	179	2
Marion	103	2
Hardin	81	2
Macon	67	2
McNairy	50	2
Benton	42	2
Chester	25	2
Washington	369	1
Rutherford	277	1
Montgomery	221	1
Sevier	210	1
Carter	146	1
Cumberland	139	1
Wilson	137	1
Cocke	112	1
Cheatham	89	1
Coffee	83	1
Humphreys	80	1
Gibson	79	1
Grundy	76	1
Maury	75	1

Most recently reported leaks in Tennessee

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2018-09-21	Pilot Travel Center no. 265	Cookeville	not reported	Open
2018-09-20	PFS Market	Baxter	not reported	No Further Action
2018-09-18	Flash Market #156	Memphis	not reported	No Further Action
2018-09-18	South Fifth Center	Nashville	not reported	Open
2018-09-04	TN0049	Newport	not reported	Open
2018-08-28	Walnut Grove Market	Memphis	not reported	Open
2018-08-27	Foster's Exxon	Mc Kenzie	not reported	No Further Action
2018-08-15	80 Smokey Rd	Savannah	not reported	No Further Action
2018-08-14	7114 Daily's	Nashville	not reported	Open
2018-08-10	Food & Oil City	Brownsville	not reported	Open
2018-08-07	2441 Monteagle Shell	Monteagle	not reported	Open
2018-08-06	County Line Store	Michie	not reported	No Further Action
2018-07-25	Gleason Bulk Plant	Gleason	not reported	No Further Action
2018-07-24	Lehigh Gas Wholesale Services, Inc/TN0006	Athens	not reported	Open
2018-07-10	TN0038	Kingston	not reported	Open
2018-07-09	YESTERDAY'S SERVICE STATION	Harriman	not reported	No Further Action
2018-07-07	Maruti Food Mart LLC dba 57 Food Mart(L)	Counce	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-26	Park Avenue Food Mart	Memphis	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-26	RmRm, Inc.	Memphis	not reported	No Further Action
2018-06-21	2217 Exxon Food Shop	Dickson	not reported	No Further Action

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