[Shop-talk] Follow-up: New house / underground oil tank

[Wayne]

On 8/8/2011 3:14 PM, Mark Andy wrote:
>> Maybe we should try to protect ourselves now?
> I'm just taking a flyer here, but I'm betting cleaning up oil
> contamination of the drinking water _is_ protecting ourselves?

I am not a hard core "greenie" but I feel like we have to cover our 
asses within reason.  15 years ago living in Ohio, the OEPA made 
everyone pull up and replace gasoline tanks.  Lots of mom & pop gas 
stations whined about it and said "it's just the damn gubment" doing 
stupid things.  Well I'm pretty sure every one of those tanks was 
leaking to some degree and I'm glad the state forced the issue.

Now I live in North Carolina, where things are not policed as closely. 
A "mom & pop" gas station just recently had a tank failure that polluted 
wells within over a 2 FUCKING MILE radius.  The city (Hendersonville, 
NC)  spent a couple million running water lines to affected homes, 
because the gasoline in the ground water won't likely clean up for decades.

-Wayne