In this video Alex Hall, with EPA’s Office of Research and Development, provides a concise walkthrough of the UST Finder. He uses a real life emergency situation faced by a Tribal Nation to show the tool can be used by you to better prepare for your own emergencies and disasters. Features he covers include:
- Selecting layers (such as facilities, releases, wildfires)
- Adding filters (such as Tribal lands, floodplains, land use)
- Accessing details about USTs at each location (such as number, age, capacity, contents, wall type)
- Accessing details about the surrounding area (such as nearby wells, population, groundwater protection area)
- Pulling in external available data (such as USGS flood data, stream gauges, wildfire, soil hydric class, river flow lines)
- Adjusting the basemap (aerial imagery, roads, geography, topographic)
- The 'Near me' tool
You can find additional resources about the tool at the UST Finder website, and you can also reach out directly to Alex Hall at hall.alexander@epa.gov with any additional questions. Please visit our UST Finder: Overview video where Alex provides a more comprehensive look at the UST Finder.
