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Underground storage tanks & leak sites in Macon 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.
354registered tank facilities
209open tanks
803closed tanks
307leak incidents on record
62cleanups still open
62 leak cleanups in
Macon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorntons #381 | Decatur | 7 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4020730 |
| City of Decatur Municipal Service Center Garage | Decatur | 6 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4024603 |
| Pilot Travel Center #368 | Decatur | 6 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4043622 |
| Circle K #1302 | Decatur | 5 / 3 | Open UST(s) | IL4007070 |
| Casey's General Store # 3646 | Forsyth | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4046489 |
| Archer Daniels Midland Co. | Decatur | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4005459 |
| Decatur Mass Transit | Decatur | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4028780 |
| Circle K #1313 | Decatur | 5 / 0 | Open UST(s) | IL4007062 |
Open leak cleanups — most recently reported
| Site | City | Reported | Substance | EPA record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huffman, Jimmy | Oreana | 2017-11-14 | Gasoline | IL1150455013_20171049 |
| Dick Van Dyke Appliance World | Decatur | 2017-11-07 | Gasoline | IL1150155170_20171022 |
| Ashir, LLC | Warrensburg | 2017-07-11 | Unleaded Diesel | IL1150505014_20170608 |
| IL Ayers Oil Company | Decatur | 2017-03-08 | Gasoline Diesel | IL1150155619_20170188 |
| PJ Liquor, Inc. | Decatur | 2016-09-02 | Gasoline | IL1150155779_20160806 |
| Meet Liquor & Food, Inc. | Decatur | 2016-05-24 | Gasoline | IL1150155631_20160436 |
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 354 registered facilities has an unknown number of unregistered ones.
- Open cleanups are the headline. 62 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