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Underground storage tanks & leak sites in Talbot County, GA

Every figure below is from EPA UST Finder — the EPA-compiled national registry of state-reported underground storage tanks — county aggregates as published by EPA.

30registered tank facilities

22open tanks

65closed tanks

19leak incidents on record

3cleanups still open

3 leak cleanups in Talbot County are still open — the state has not closed the case. An open cleanup near a property you're buying or lending on is a findable, checkable fact: it appears in a per-address screen with distance and the registry record.

Open leak cleanups — most recently reported

Site	City	Reported	Substance	EPA record
HAMPS INC (CONV STORE) # 1	TALBOTTON	2012-02-06	—	GA12892
TALBOT CO RD DEPT	TALBOTTON	1999-06-21	—	GA7790
MITCHELLS	TALBOTTON	not reported	—	GA17082

What this means if you're buying or lending here

"Closed" ≠ clean. A closed tank was taken out of service per the registry — many were closed without soil testing, especially before the late 1990s.
The registry is incomplete by design. Tanks removed before 1986 and most residential heating-oil tanks were never registered. A county with 30 registered facilities has an unknown number of unregistered ones.
Open cleanups are the headline. 3 cases in this county are still open; contamination may still be under investigation or remediation — distance from a specific parcel is what matters, and that's a per-address question.

Screen a specific property

This page covers the county. A purchase or loan decision needs the registry around one address: registered tanks at the parcel, every facility within 500 and 1,500 ft, leak cleanups with status and distance — each line cited to the official record.

Screen an address — $49 How it works

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.

source: EPA UST Finder EPA data vintage 2024-12-04 computed 2026-06-12