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$100,000 EPA Grant Spurs Rosalia Efforts to Reclaim Former Service Stations
Release Date: 7/1/2002
Contact Information: Bill Dunbar
[email protected]
(206) 553-1203
July 1, 2002
02-23
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it will provide $33,000 to a Rosalia, Washington effort to clean up petroleum releases from two leaking underground storage tanks from former service station in the southeast, Washington town. The town is planning a major community project at the site which will need to be free of the tanks and any contamination before construction can begin.The tanks have contained or still contain gasoline or other petroleum products that pose threats to groundwater supplies and nearby Pine Creek. The tanks and any associated contamination will be removed from the Old Jensen Texaco Station site prior to construction of the new community project which will include a visitors’ center, the Jensen Memorial Rose Garden, an auto/farm museum, a children’s outdoor learning center, a garden house, and a school car wash area.
The $33,000 grant to Rosalia is part of a multi-million dollar EPA program to cleanup contamination at abandoned underground storage tank sites that are hampering communities’ efforts to redevelop and improve areas on or around the tanks.
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