Oil Tank Removal in Salem, OR
Service Areas
We cover Salem plus the surrounding Marion and Polk County corridor. Pick your area for tank-removal pricing and local context.
Salem-Keizer Metro
Outer Marion & Polk County
Other Marion and Polk County areas we serve
Beyond the eight areas above, our crews routinely dispatch to the rest of the Salem-Keizer corridor on standard scheduling. That includes Aumsville, Mt. Angel, Brooks, Hubbard, and Sublimity heading east through Marion County; Dallas, Monmouth, and Rickreall west through Polk County; and the unincorporated parcels along the Highway 22 and Highway 99E corridors that connect them. Same DEQ Service Provider license, same Decommissioning Report standard, same Salem DEQ office on Lancaster Drive for the closeout.
Inside Salem proper, we cover every neighborhood with the same workflow regardless of whether it has its own page. NESCA, Northgate, Hayesville, and Lansing in northeast Salem are some of our highest-volume blocks because of the dense 1948-1968 tract development. Sunnyslope, Faye Wright, and Croisan-Illahe in the South Salem hills handle abandonment-in-place work regularly, and the riverside lots in the West Salem area (Edgewater, Wallace, Glen Creek) sometimes need January dewatering before the tank can be lifted.
If you are unsure whether you are inside our service radius, call (503) 555-0100 with your address. We confirm coverage in under a minute and book the survey on the same call.
What every Salem-area decommissioning looks like
The job is the same regardless of which Marion or Polk County jurisdiction handles your permit. Differences in soil and housing era show up in scope and scheduling, not in workflow.
Site survey and fixed-price quote
Free on-site visit. We confirm tank size, depth, and access (driveway pinch points, fence panels to remove, irrigation lines to flag), then write a fixed-price quote rather than time and materials. The quote is built on what we see, not what we guess.
Permit and 72-hour DEQ Notice of Intent
We pull the City of Salem, Marion County, or Polk County permit and file the DEQ Notice of Intent to Decommission at the Western Region office on Lancaster Drive NE. Homeowner does not handle paperwork. 811 utility locate runs in parallel.
Excavate, clean to vapor-free, sample, lift
Excavate to the tank, pump residual product and sludge, clean to NFPA 326 vapor-free standards, pull cradle and sidewall soil samples per DEQ protocol, and lift the shell for recycling. ORELAP-accredited lab analysis on TPH-Dx, BTEX, and naphthalene-PAHs.
Backfill, restore, file Decommissioning Report
Backfill with clean structural fill compacted in lifts, restore the surface, and submit the Decommissioning Report to the Salem DEQ office within 60 days. DEQ assignment letter follows in 30 to 60 days; that closeout is what shows clean in the next buyer's due diligence.
Salem-area pricing in context
A clean residential UST decommissioning across Salem and the surrounding Marion and Polk County area runs $1,800 to $3,500 for a 500- to 1,000-gallon tank. That figure includes the permit, the decommissioning labor, ORELAP soil sampling, lab fees, and the Decommissioning Report. Aboveground basement tanks are cheaper, generally $400 to $900 for a standard 275-gallon Granby.
Hillside South Salem jobs and tight downtown lots can push the upper end higher because of access. Foothill towns (Stayton, Silverton) can carry slightly higher cleanup risk because the clay soils accelerate corrosion timelines. Anything substantially below the standard range is missing a step DEQ or your buyer's lender will catch.
Common questions
Schedule Your Salem-Area Tank Decommissioning
Free site survey, fixed-price quote, DEQ-closing documentation. Most surveys scheduled within 48 hours.
Call (503) 555-0100