Home Heating Oil Tanks and Piping
Due to the overwhelming response from a recent broadcast, please refer to the following for additional information. If you think that your outside above ground storage tank fits the criteria for a DEP provided filter protector, please call 207-287-7800.
Preventing spills from home heating oil tanks including "Tom talks about tank safety."
Filter protectors for outside tanks
Aboveground Home Heating Oil Storage Tank Replacement Program
Aboveground Home Heating Oil Tank and Piping Upgrade Pilot Project - a report by DEP to the Fund Insurance Review Board outlining the condition of above ground oil storage tanks and facilities in Maine, information on DEP's retrofitting, repair and replacement work and recommendations for further action on above ground storage tanks. October 1999. 27 pages.
Those Tanks In America's Backyards and Basements: Aboveground and Underground Home Heating Oil Tanks - in pdf format
Those Tanks In America's Backyards and Basements - Part 2: A Report from Maine on the Trials and Tribulations of Leaking Aboveground Home Heating Oil Tanks - in pdf format
Related Programs and Links
Oil and Solid Fuel Board
