Alabama orders corrective action at Ashville Texaco after underground-tank release

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has required corrective action at Ashville Texaco after a release from an underground storage tank affected soil or groundwater at the facility.

ADEM issued the notice July 16, 2026. It identifies the site as Ashville Texaco, located at 36950 Highway 231 W. in Ashville, Alabama, and requires IRA Phillips Inc. to implement a corrective action plan for remediation.

What changed at the site

The notice places a named Ashville fuel facility under state environmental remediation requirements. The action is a requirement to carry out a corrective action plan; it is not a record showing that cleanup has already been completed.

ADEM’s St. Clair County environmental-record listing also records the Ashville Texaco underground-storage-tank matter and dates the related permit or notice activity to July 2026. Together, the records establish the state’s formal response to the reported soil or groundwater impact at the property.

For people who live, work or conduct business near the Highway 231 site, the practical significance is that the property is now subject to a required remediation response. The source packet says that response may involve environmental monitoring, cleanup activity and additional public information about potential contamination. The available records do not document that those activities have begun.

What the records do not establish

The ADEM materials do not identify the contaminant involved, measured concentrations or the size of any contamination plume. They also do not identify affected wells or say whether drinking-water supplies are affected.

The notice does not establish that residents were exposed or that drinking water is unsafe. No sampling result or health-agency finding supporting either conclusion appears in the approved records.

The notice also should not be described as proof of a newly occurring spill. It documents required corrective action, but the available material does not necessarily identify when the release occurred.

Next step for the operator

IRA Phillips Inc. is required to implement the corrective action plan for the Ashville Texaco site. That is the next known action in the record.

The approved documents do not provide a further public deadline for the plan, a cleanup completion date or the operator’s current remediation status. They also do not include site sampling results. Any assessment of the contamination’s extent or its effect on nearby wells would require information not provided in the current record.