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State To Clean Up Decades Old Petroleum Spill At Escambia Road Dept. In Cantonment
July 28, 2018
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) will clean up a decades old spill at the Escambia County Road Department in Cantonment.
In 1986 a petroleum discharge was reported at the road department facility at 601 Highway 297A. The release was registered into the Florida State Early Detection Incentive Petroleum Cleanup Program and has now become eligible for cleanup.
The FDEP will locate contamination, determine contamination levels and, when necessary, remove and remediate contamination. Any work may be performed by the FDEP or a contractor.
The state is seeking access to the property to conduct the assessment and cleanup of the contamination.
The Escambia County Commission is expected to approve an access agreement at their next meeting on August 2.
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9 Responses to “State To Clean Up Decades Old Petroleum Spill At Escambia Road Dept. In Cantonment”
32 years to late
I would not worry about the inmates, they like it so much they keep coming back. I feel sorry for the people who have worked there for year. I wounder what the effect is on them.
Do you think the contaminated site would have any effect on the inmates at ECRP over the years from catfish farmed on site an the use of water out of the big pound behind the prison to water crops that is feed to the inmates such as squash just saying the fule pumps are only 2. Or 3 hundred feet from both pounds
REGARDING:
“The road crews when laying new roads pour HUGE amounts of oil on the ground.”
This is true, or at least that they pour huge amounts of hydrocarbons on the ground. All are not the same, though. Some will only move when heated or thinned by a volatile organic compound. Some will easily move and contaminate ground/drinking water. Much depends on which this was and what all is endangered.
David for fresh water
MEH… The road crews when laying new roads pour HUGE amounts of oil on the ground. And we have millions of miles of roads with billions of gallons of oil under them..
what ever was there at this site is NOTHING so stop making something of it ….
When I was a DEP manager over pollutant storage tanks in the 1990’s, it cost an average of $250,000 to clean up an average contaminated site. Currently, there are over 19,000 sites statewide that are eligible for state-funded cleanup. Roughly, that means that it will take 4 billion, 750 million dollars to clean them all up. Obviously, we don’t have enough money to clean them all up, especially at once. The sites are ranked with proximity to wells, the extent of contamination, etc., and a list of priorities are assigned. The highest ones on the list have already been addressed with lower priority sites next. Some will probably never get cleaned up as nature has taken care of them, or they aren’t a threat to the aquifer.
It will take the state that long plus to clean-up Wedgewood and the spot zoning of landfills they and the county allowed in those communities.
What is the rush? Put it off for another 32 years!!!
it has been 32 years an environmental spill that has to be reported is supposed to be cleaned up right away not wait for 32years damage is already done seems a little late in coming