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California’s UST cleanup funds have dried up

California’s State Water Resources Control Board oversees the implementation of some of the country’s strictest environmental regulations, including those that govern the inspection, monitoring, removal, and cleanup of underground storage tanks. The only problem is that the cash-strapped state doesn’t have enough money in its Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund to cover all the work in progress.

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Contaminated water from UST sickens Colorado town

When we talk about underground storage tanks, we normally talk about how the contents of a leaking contaminate surrounding soil and groundwater. This week, however, the Denver Post reported a case of the opposite when soil contaminated with deadly bacteria permeated the walls of one town’s . Because the town used the faulty tank to store clean , hundreds and possibly thousands of town residents became sick.

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