Re: [DML] Flushing Fuel System/ Fuel Disposal

[Pete Berveiler <zamphyr2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

[Moderator Note: This subject has drifted away from the DeLorean.  Pete's message will be the last word on the subject.  - moderator Mike Substelny]


Michael,

As an Environmental Engineer, your comment astounds
me..  Do people really know so little about our
ecosystem??  Please note I am not a hippie liberal
treehugger, but I see what the EPA and state agencies
are demanding, and the cost to get most site to this
level is significant. 

A single gallon of gasoline can contaminate 1,000,000
gallons of groundwater, based on partition
coefficients.  True it usually takes 10 gallons
spilled at the surface to get the 1 gallon to the
aquifer, but en masse, we usually do this at almost
every gas station every day (drip spills, etc)

Gasoline and many other automotive substances (fuel,
etc) should be properly disposed of by professionals. 
Almost any service station (not pep boys, etc) with
service bays can handle it.

If you have no other recourse, find a place to burn
it.  The volatile components have less impact on the
atmosphere than on soil/groundwater.

Pete


--- Michael T Twigger <marktwigger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Moderator Note: This suggestion might be illegal,
> depending on where you live]
> 
> Well if you own a lot of land just find a spot
> way out the way of your house and tip it out
> on a rainy day for after. Kills those weeds like
> nothing else.
> 
> If your fuel tank is out the car. Take it to a
> high power washer. That will clean out all the gunk.
> 
> 


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