Population Surrounding 66,247 Open Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites
Leaking Underground Storage Tank sites exist in thousands of communities across the United States ranging from remote to large urban settings. Many of them are located in economically distressed communities.
To help understand the communities near LUST sites, EPA collected data on the population living within three, one, and a quarter mile(s) of LUST sites.
Population Surrounding 66,247 Open LUST Sites (pdf)
Population data is from the 2017-2021 American Community Survey. Sites from states are as of 2018-2019 and from Tribal lands and U.S. territories are as of 2020-2021