Gas tank removal
yes. It was removed and we were told that there is lead in the soil. Anyone know of a remediation company that has experience with gasoline tanks (quite different, evidently, than oil tanks.) Thanks!
yahooyahoo said:
On a residential property?
Quite possible there are a number of known brown sites in the area, especially near the location of former gas stations and industrial sites.
Rstraus, I've never seen that question come up in my 8+ years of following oil tank threads on MOL. If I were in your shoes, I'd start by calling Mike Waters. He owns a tank removal company in the area and has done a bunch of oil tank pulls in the area and is widely regarded as reasonable and ethical. I wasn't able to use him because he wasn't on my insurance company's approved vendor list, but he spent a good hour at my house explaining the process and my options, even knowing he wouldn't be getting the job. I think he'd be able to provide some good recommendations.
http://www.manta.com/c/mmc59cr/waters-mike-oil-tank-and-boilers
Also, if this is the same house my contractor was telling me about last week, the house used to be a farm house and the tank was used to store gasoline for the farm equipment.
No recommendations, but I have wondered about this at times. There are a couple of newer homes on Irvington Ave where there used to be a gas station. Those are new enough that I'd guess they had certain guidelines to follow. But when I was little I remember a gas station on a small side street in the middle of a residential neighborhood in West Caldwell. It was torn down and a home was built there about 1980 or so. I often wonder if the residents even know their home used to be the site of a gas station, and also what sort of soil contamination might be there. One of the many factors that went into my deciding to use raised beds for my veggies, unless you live in a historic home you never really know what used to be on your property before your house was built.
we had a gas tank removed and lead was found in the soil. Has anyone had this experience? It i different than an oil tank remediation situation. Any recommendations for remediation companies?