Despite 19 Years' Notice, 100s Of Florida Gas Stations, Businesses Haven't Fixed Leaking Tanks

Despite 19 years' notice, hundreds of gas stations, governments and businesses failed to upgrade risky fuel storage tanks before a New Year's deadline.

To protect drinking water, the state required owners to upgrade the tanks from single-wall protection to double walls — or permanently close them out.

But that deadline passed with nearly 600 Tampa Bay area tanks still needing upgrades at almost 200 locations, most of them fuel stations, according to a database by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Nearly 4,700 tanks statewide — about 10 percent of Florida's tanks — made the list, despite the risk of $10,000 fines a day. Even an industry push for upgrades that drew in former Gov. Jeb Bush failed to bring all the tanks into compliance.

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/hundreds-of-risky-fuel-tanks-go-unrepaired-despite-state-deadline/1066190

Huh. It's almost like Bush could have done more as Governor, but strangely enough, failed to do so. I wonder why . . .

We've got ours all switched out.

You'd think they'd take better care of it.

But nope -- once the shit is sold and the money's in their pocket, then fuck it...

map is pretty damn crowded. I'm sure it's not much better elsewhere in FL.

n/t

10k per day is incentive enough

> Despite 19 years' notice ...
>
> To protect drinking water, the state required owners to upgrade the tanks
> from single-wall protection to double walls — or permanently close them out.

What's the problem? Just pump them out and shut the damn things down - permanently.

They've had plenty of warning so JFDI.

:shrug: