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

[eric at megageek.com]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we don't need to take care of the 
environment.  But I think we pasted the 'happy median' a long time ago.

It is too the point now that most people can't risk pulling a tank.  The 
clean up is way too expensive.  Do we really need to regulate everything 
to the Nth degree that doing the right thing is just too expensive?

Why can't I pull my own tank (with an inspector present) and remove any 
contaminated soil myself?  When I was talking with the remediation 
contractor, he told me about how each year, there is a new layer of red 
tape, bs or other regulation that just makes the work more expensive 
without it being any more effective.

I agree with a regulation that says you have to pull tanks, but make sure 
you can affordable remediate the site instead of just bankrupting the 
people that are trying to do right.

Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson 




Wayne <wmc_st at xxiii.com> 
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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
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