Re: glass fuel bowl observation

Posted by HH56 On 2009/6/28 10:34:39

Guess rainwater is possible but would believe condensation more likely--believe most tanks pretty well capped. Don't know about Tennessee, but here in most parts of the state, because of the old tanks leaking MTBE (or somesuch name) and contaminating groundwater, the EPA forced gas stations to remove old underground tanks, replace with ones above ground or if under, something that won't corrode etc. If they didn't do that, had to close down AND remove tanks. New tanks have monitoring equipt, and because of air resources board, vapor recovery systems in some counties--so running rainwater or seepage would be low on the list of problems here--(the drought doesn't help either). Interestingly, none of this would have taken place if air resources and EPA hadn't forced them to sell the MTBE (which turns out to be a potent carcinogen) gas in the first place as a way to cut pollution.