not much info here in this article, i would be interested if anyone knows anything more about this.

(Murray-AP) -- Underground gas tanks opposite City Hall could be leaking and posing a threat to nearby Little Cottonwood Creek, city officials have found. Members of the Murray City Council were told this week that they need to study how to clean up the potential leak, which could cost 100-thousand dollars. Council members were puzzled that the city would free Quality Oil Company, the former owner of the site, from any responsibility for pollution when the city bought the land more than a decade ago. The property cost 800-thousand dollars. The property is also near land Intermountain Health Care hopes to use to build a medical-research and patient-care campus. Any pollution must be cleaned up before the land can be sold to I-H-C.

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-- boop (leafyspurge@hotmail.com), January 24, 2000

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wow....I'm so overwhelmed I can't move.......

-- wierd 1 (today@the.ranch), January 24, 2000.

USTs leak, that's what they do. At least if they are single-walled, steel tanks that have corroded over time. Gasoline moves quickly downward to the water table, and then moves with the flow. There are standard methods to clean it up, but it can be very expensive.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), January 24, 2000.

The all-time best underground tank leak had to be (no link, was ~10 yrs. ago) when the Chevron tanks near LAX were leaking and they said they couldn't perform the mandated clean-up as it would damage the habitat of the endangered blue butterfly. Money talks.

Frank

-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.com), January 24, 2000.