[CPEO-BIF] Oregon's leaking oil tanks

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Untold oil leaks lurk
As home sales sag and cleanup costs jump, fewer oil tanks are removed

BY PETER KORN
Pamplin Media Group
March 17, 2011
About 1,200 leaking home oil tanks were discovered last year in  
Oregon - the great majority in the Portland metro area.

But what really worries Bruce Gilles, Oregon Department of  
Environmental Quality cleanup manager, are the leaking tanks that  
aren't being discovered.

Before the economic downturn, hundreds more leaking tanks were being  
discovered and decommissioned each year. Gilles is concerned that  
fewer people are looking, afraid to discover that they have a major  
backyard pollution problem when they don't have the money to fix it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tigardtimes.com/sustainable/story.php? 
story_id=129990471193625600

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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