[CPEO-BIF] Former gas stations, Grants, New Mexico

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tim Maestas
KRQE News 13 (Albuquerque, NM)
September 4, 2009

GRANTS, N.M. - The state is spending millions to clean up a massive 
contamination site in Grants where three former gas stations leaked up 
to 50,000 gallons of gasoline into the soil and groundwater.

The gas stations with underground storage tanks lined old Route 66 and 
have become what the New Mexico Environment Department calls the "Triple 
Site".

"This is the highest-priority site that we have," said Jim Davis, who 
heads the environment department's petroleum storage tank bureau. "What 
happened over the years is a lot of gasoline stations experienced leaks 
or releases in the environment."

The contamination plume stretches almost 1,000 feet underneath the 1200 
block of West Santa Fe Avenue. Environment workers and private 
contractors have spent the last several years working to clean it up, 
with dozens of wells connected to vacuum pumps that remove the gasoline 
and toxic, explosive vapors trapped beneath the ground.


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For the entire story, see
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/on_assignment/onassignment_krqe_grants_old_gas_stations_left_modern_headache_200909040025

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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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