There is a subdivision in my town that has five or six. The oil came from a salvage yard that the town tried for years to control. There are two former industrial sites two towns over that had bad ground water pollution that travelled way off the site. One was called the Kingston Barrel factory, But they didn't make barrels, they just washed out used ones. It became a Federal superfund site, and the town had to get municipal water mains extended from the neighboring town. The other one was owned by this fellow that I knew. He was a very nice guy who had a nice 2 cyl Deere. Probably an A. He picked up waste oil from the town transfer stations. His trucks were lettered: "Beede Waste Oil.... oil for dusty roads". He picked up our town's waste oil. Our town was named in the Federal suit. We had to pay well over $20,000. It took a lot of money to mitigate the groundwater pollution, and it is still being monitored. When I first moved to this town forty years ago, there was a run down place on a dirt road just across the town line with a lot of junk around it. A few years later it was found that waste oil was being dumped there. There was a little building put there that housed pumps and filters. They drilled a lot of wells and pumped the water out and filtered it then pumped it back in through other wells. Our town had a landfill that was capped around 1995. Part of the job was drilling of monitoring wells. We got off easy, the pollution didn't travel far and then stopped. If you go and ask a half dozen people you will most likely find someone in your area that knows of the problems there. It got a lot of publicity at the time.
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