I had an old 1000 gal. oil tank dug out of my front yard awhile back, it looked like fuckin Rommel rolled through, try to grow grass in the middle of a drought, it sucks.
Up here when an old leaky tank gets dug up, the owner (and any previous owners who can be got at) have to pay to have all the contaminated dirt (as in dump truck loads of it) hauled away and incinerated (as in likely thousands of kilometers to the nearest specialized incinerator, at their own cost (usually measured somewhere between 10k and 100k, depending on severity). A friend of ours got nailed for a house she sold over forty years ago - she had no idea the place even had an old tank buried there. A couple owners since her could not be found, so they could not be included in the party.
The law was put in place to deal with industrial polution liability, but it turns out to be used mostly against homeowners with leaky buried oil tanks. The law of unintended consequences.
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