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rbalex said:
This is already an EPA violation. Where such soil is broken into and such conditions exist, the hazardous soil must be removed all the way until no such soil remains. The soil must be taken to a special remediation yard for disposal. It is an extremely costly activity. Many gas stations with leaking underground storage tanks have suffered such a fate.
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Of course it is, the cleanup was hundreds of thousands of dollars. The interesting part at this location was the site was cleaned up once before but they hadn't dug in this location. This gas was from the 60s.
 
wallyworld said:
Of course it is, the cleanup was hundreds of thousands of dollars. The interesting part at this location was the site was cleaned up once before but they hadn't dug in this location. This gas was from the 60s.
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Unless and ​until the hazardous soil is broken into there is no EPA violation. I have one client who is so paranoid about this they will not put any thing underground unless the area is very tightly investigated. Several of their tank farm locations could now be refined like shale oil.
 
rbalex said:
Unless and ​until the hazardous soil is broken into there is no EPA violation. I have one client who is so paranoid about this they will not put any thing underground unless the area is very tightly investigated. Several of their tank farm locations could now be refined like shale oil.
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I don't blame your client, any place that has stored petroleum products, whether above or below ground has a chance for pollution. I've seen sites I thought would be dirty be clean and sites I thought would be clean that were dirty. They hauled dirt out of this site for weeks, the approved dump was 70 miles away. truck could make 2 trips a day. I've also seen sites with no good place to haul it and they ended up putting the dirt thru a paving plant and burning the hydrocarbons out of it. Its expensive. Its also expensive for me to wait around before I can start putting conduit in the ground:lol:
 
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