Aboveground Home Heating Oil Storage Tank Replacement Program
Will Your Oil Tank be Responsible for Contaminating Local Water Supplies?
In 1998 the Maine State Legislature granted authority to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to establish the Aboveground Home Heating Oil Storage Tank Replacement Program (AST). This program is intended to prevent oil spills that can contaminate private and public drinking water supplies. Experience has shown that cleaning up after a spill is much more expensive that replacing an unsafe oil tank before a spill occurs.
The Department recognizes that the cost of replacing petroleum tanks can be significant especially for low- income families. In order to help tank owners pay for the replacement of these unsafe tanks, the Department has made arrangements for grants through the State's eleven Community Action Agencies. The program provides funds to remove ASTs at single family, owner occupied, residential households.
Income eligibility guidelines for the AST program are the same as those for the Low Income Home Energy Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
Contact your local Community Action Agency for more information.
For more information regarding home heating oil tanks, please contact Peter Moulton at 287-8161 or email; Peter Moulton
Home Heating Oil Tanks and Piping Additional Information
Tom talks about outside home heating oil tanks - In order to preview the video clip you will need a media player (attached script in pdf format)
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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.
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Double Wall Home Heating Oil Tanks and Tank Tub for Outdoor Tanks
Filter Protectors for Outside Oil Tanks
Is Your Tank In Shape?
Outside Heating Oil Tanks - Wise Words from Tom the Responder
Talk to Tom about Tank Safety
Tank Corrosion and Ultrasonic Thickness Testing of Your Home Heating Oil Tank
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 (Off Site)
Oil and Solid Fuel Board
