[CPEO-BIF] Low threat fuel tank closures in California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Policy change allows underground leak sites across state to  
skip monitoring

ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 24, 2013

SANTA ANA, California — A new report says hundreds of underground  
leak sites will go unmonitored by the state under a policy change.

Since the 1980s, more than 44,000 underground fuel tank leaks have  
been tallied in California. A change that went into effect last year  
allows some of these sites to end regulatory monitoring even though  
trace contamination exists, the Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/ 
1iFVdgq ) reported.

The state has defended the policy, saying that there's no threat to  
human health because gasoline contaminants will naturally degrade and  
won't reach groundwater supplies. State officials also said their  
focus is on cleaning up the worst underground petroleum storage tank  
leaks.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ 
275dc68c24924b2cbdde8a0f248e2bde/CA--Underground-Fuel-Tank-Leaks

The original Orange County Register (CA) article is available for a fee.

--

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

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org