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UST Finder: The National Underground Storage Tanks and Release Web Map Region 9 and 10 Workshop
Citation:
Hall, Alex AND F. Kremer. UST Finder: The National Underground Storage Tanks and Release Web Map Region 9 and 10 Workshop. Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials UST Finder Workshop: Regions 9 & 10, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 28, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
This is a training workshop for EPA region 9 and 10 on the use and applications of EPA UST Finder. Attendees will learn about their underground storage tank universe, potential vulnerabilities to the this critical infrastructure such as flooding and wildfires, and impacts to human health and the environment such as contamination to public and private drinking water supplies.
Description:
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials, developed UST Finder, a flexible web map application containing a comprehensive, statesourced national map of underground storage tank (UST) and leaking UST (LUST) data. Using publicly available information, UST Finder provides the attributes and locations of active and closed USTs, UST facilities, and LUST sites from states as of 2018-2019. UST Finder contains information about proximity of UST facilities and LUST sites to: surface and groundwater public drinking water protection areas; estimated number of private domestic wells and number of people living nearby; and flooding and wildfires. UST Finder can import additional data layers and export UST facility and LUST site information for use by other software programs.