The tank is within 10 metres of a river stream ditch lake canal the sea soakaway septic tank effluent treatment system water storage tank aquifer or gully or where a spill from the tank could reach the aforementioned.
Commercial oil tank regulations.
If your fixed tank has any permanently attached vent pipes taps or valves that oil can leave the tank through all pipes taps and valves must.
These guidelines are intended to help reduce pollution caused by inadequate storage of oil in above ground oil storage tank installations.
Be within the bund.
They should never be installed where.
The regulations apply to storage tank systems that.
The oil storage regulations apply to all new installations in the uk both domestic and commercial.
Oil is the commonest pollutant in the uk accounting for one quarter of all incidents.
These include meeting the building regulations for oil tanks.
Contain petroleum products such as used oil home heating oil jet fuel diesel and gasoline or allied petroleum products such as biodiesel general purpose thinners for lacquers isopropanol uninhibited ethylene.
For more information on this see the building regulations section below.
If you are simply storing oil in a tank on your land there are some rules that still apply as set out in the oil storage regulations from the government.
Oil tank installation and building regulations.
Are comprised of tanks that have a capacity of more than 230 litres and are designed to be installed in a fixed location.