2015 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 07:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Leaking underground gas tanks in Canob Park, Rhode Island
 
Rural R.I. Town at Epicenter of Leaking Fuel Tank Story

By TIM FAULKNER
ecoRI News (RI)
May 20, 2015


RICHMOND, R.I. — The story of Canob Park is a nearly forgotten one today, but in 1983 the neighborhood received national attention, when “60 Minutes,” the most popular show on TV at the time, featured the plight of a local neighborhood. The intent was to highlight an emerging environmental problem: hundreds of thousands of aging and leaking underground gas tanks and a lack of environmental regulations to address the threat.

The Canob Park story had the important elements of a good pollution drama: an intimidating big corporation, a local government too scared to shut down a polluter and helpless residents dealing with well water contaminated by gasoline.

In the rural village of Wyoming, leaking tanks from a Mobil gas station were polluting home drinking water in the nearby Canob Park neighborhood. An Exxon station directly across the street also was suspected of leaking gas.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ecori.org/pollution-contamination/2015/5/20/rural-ri-town-at-epicenter-of-leaking-fuel-tank-story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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