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WATER SAMPLES TO BE COLLECTED AT TUBA CITY THRIFTWAY AND SUNWEST GAS STATIONS

Release Date: 5/24/2000
Contact Information: Sonia Altieri, U.S. EPA, (415) 744-1588

     NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS
           

     SAN FRANCISCO   Groundwater samples will be collected from over seventy monitoring wells at the Tuba City Thriftway and SunWest (also known as Navajo Trails and Super Fuels) gas stations beginning on May 30, 2000.  This effort to monitor the boundaries of an underground gasoline plume will last approximately two weeks.  

     The Hopi Environmental Protection Office, the Navajo Nation EPA, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the sampling process.  The investigation of the extent of the gasoline contamination is ongoing.  Cleanup technologies have been installed at the Tuba City Thriftway facility to remove contamination from soil and water.  Water samples collected from local springs in the past year show no signs of gasoline contamination.