[CPEO-BIF] Blue Bell gasoline leak, Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Blue Bell gasoline leak remains a problem after 11 years

By Derrick Nunnally
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
May 25, 2009

Eleven years after a massive gasoline leak from Blue Bell Gulf tainted 
groundwater and sent vapors through a swath of Whitpain Township, the 
problems it caused haven't been solved.

The cleanup bill for the 13,000-gallon leak is $12.1 million and 
climbing. Dozens of neighbors of the former station are a decade into a 
court fight over the pollution that remains years from a tidy ending. 
The gas station's owner, now unemployed, is trying to get off the hook 
for the entire cost of the mess.

And on a recent gray day, a rainbow-hued cloud slid along the surface of 
a pond in this sedate Montgomery County suburb.

"Look at the sheen of gas here," Christine Fisher of Blue Bell said at a 
pasture where she once fed a horse and goat. "After a rain, we find 
these little puddles of sheen back in the woods here, still."

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20090525_A_Blue_Bell_gasoline_leak_Blue_Bell_remains_a_problem_after_11_years.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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