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Underground storage tanks & leak sites in Lake County, IL
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.
1,190registered tank facilities
954open tanks
2,820closed tanks
1,450leak incidents on record
362cleanups still open
362 leak cleanups in
Lake 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.
Largest registered facilities
By open-tank count, from the facility-level registry. Every fact is attributed to the EPA record (linked ID); something wrong — use the correction path in the footer and we'll fix or remove it promptly.
| Facility | City | Open / closed tanks | Status | EPA record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akzo Nobel Coatings Inc | Waukegan | 17 / 18 | Open UST(s) | IL2013485 |
| Travel Center of America #30 | Russell | 10 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL2032549 |
| Public Works Facility | Waukegan | 10 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL2024727 |
| VA Medical Center | North Chicago | 8 / 9 | Open UST(s) | IL2014378 |
| Speedway # 7459 | North Chicago | 6 / 7 | Open UST(s) | IL2026984 |
| Speedway #7649 | Buffalo Grove | 6 / 5 | Open UST(s) | IL2014598 |
| IL0071 | Lincolnshire | 6 / 3 | Open UST(s) | IL2016480 |
| Speedway #3996 | Volo | 6 / 3 | Open UST(s) | IL2040315 |
Open leak cleanups — most recently reported
| Site | City | Reported | Substance | EPA record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grayslake, Village of | Grayslake | 2018-09-20 | Gasoline Diesel | IL970255049_20180878 |
| Graham Enterprise, Inc. | North Chicago | 2018-09-04 | Gasoline Diesel | IL971255071_20180827 |
| Riverwoods, Village of | Riverwoods | 2018-08-30 | — | IL971455012_20180809 |
| Graham Enterprise, Inc. #146 | North Chicago | 2018-08-16 | UsedOil | IL971255071_20180765 |
| MGM Resources, Inc. | Round Lake Heights | 2018-07-17 | Gasoline | IL971505025_20180671 |
| IL Dept. of Transportation | Gurnee | 2018-06-19 | — | IL971905156_20180567 |
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 1,190 registered facilities has an unknown number of unregistered ones.
- Open cleanups are the headline. 362 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 worksThis 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