Thousands of liter diesel, which Irving Station did not discover, show documents

An Irving petrol station on the outskirts of Woodstock has entered thousands of liters of diesel fuel into the environment, say state e -mails about the leak discovered in December.

A crack in an elbow tube that is attached to an underground diesel bearing tank may have made it possible to escape 100,000 liters of diesel fuel, according to the documents preserved by CBC News by right to information.

The fuel contaminated near the groundwater, caused the closure of a Tim Horton and the Irving station and possibly put the danger nearby nearby.

Photos that were provided in response to an information request show the failed elbow tube that led to the leak of diesel fuel from the Irving petrol station. (Province of New Brunswick)

Several inhabitants announced CBC News in January that they suspected the fuel in the water in the Beardsley Road Tim Hortons.

The restaurant shares a parking lot with Murrays Restaurant and Irving Tank Station as well as a station from Irving Transport Truck.

Some residents said they could smell fuel if they washed their hands in the bathing rooms in restaurants, and others thought they could taste it in their drinks by November.

Documents Detailed provincial interest spectors that react to Vacuum trucks that absorb the material that was 90 percent diesel when it was first tried to adjust the groundwater. (Shane Fowler/CBC News)

In January, the province said that the leak was discovered on December 12 after Tim Hortons submitted an incident report to the province when testing resulted in the presence of oil in its untreated water. His treated water showed no signs of contamination.

These results led to the immediate closure of Tim Hortons and Murrays restaurant and petrol station. Vacuum trucks and environmental data cleaning crews worked around the clock in the area for several weeks. More than two months later, the vacuum cars are still there.

O'clock | This petrol station may have leaked more than 100,000 liters of diesel fuel:

At first, officials suspected that the leak was much smaller, as the province's documents state.

“Early reconciliation of the fuel volume has the potential publication of up to 5000 l,” wrote Shawn ProSser, an environmental inspector, to colleagues. “At this point, it is not known that the full extent or the effects, but the crews continue to work on the situation.”

Irving ceased Dillon Consulting to guide his reaction to the leak.

The company organized mediation crews and reaction teams, including vacuum trucks, had barriers and berms that were installed on the trenches alongside the Beardsley Road and the adjacent Trans-Canada motorway.

But after nine days of continuous clean -up work, this first estimate of the leak was put in the shade, and the question was raised why the leak had not triggered an alarm.

“The amount will continue to be refined, but they appreciate between 50,000 and 100,000 ls,” Mallory Gilliss, a manager of contaminated locations at the Department of Environment, wrote to colleagues on December 23.

The vacuum truck pumped around the clock, “and the early liquid that was won was pretty much 90% product,” wrote Gilliss.

“The examination has expired why the publication did not trigger an alarm, and there may be no way to know whether it was a small leak over a few months or something larger with a shorter time frame.”

The reaction the next day, Christmas Eve, from the inspector of the environmental department, Denis Ouellette, began with a “Yikes!”

“Whole volumes that may be released! Samples that were collected in TPH (total petroleum hydrocarbons) in surface water in the Bartsley RD trench on December 16 had approx. 1/3 free product and 2/3 surface water in collected samples.”

On Jan.10 Gilliss updated this amount again. She wrote in a report that was submitted to the Prime Minister: “However, the amount of the published diesel will continue to be refined on the basis of the product recovery data, but may be more than 100,000 L.

Cleaning reaction

After the leak had been recognized, Dillon Consulting began cleaning and renovation, the entry -level company and residents of which belonged in the immediate area to apply for the testing of fountain water.

“You tested my water at least three times,” said Ivan Tompkins, who lives about 500 meters from the leakage location on the Trans-Canada Highway, this week. “So far, all results have come back as negative. The water is still good.”

Cards show the extent to which the crews have found diesel in local waterways. The orange pen describes the Irving, where the leak was created. In the blue shading traces, in which diesel was present in trench water, and in the red line, workers found the fuel in surface water, which led to a wetland in orange. (Province of New Brunswick)

Tompkins said Dillon Consulting kept him up to date over the leak and offered him bottle water, which he rejected.

He said that he was “concerned”, but achieved consolation when he still sees the constant cleaning up teams at work. When his fountain water is contaminated, he expects the company to bore a new fountain or to be connected to the Woodstock Municipal Water.

In the government documents, Gilliss found that early tests of the nearby fountain for contaminants come back negatively and that tests will be necessary over a long period of time.

According to the documents, Irving Oil worked with the city of Woodstock to secure the municipal water so that the gas station had reopened, including the restaurant and adjacent Irving 24 Transport Lasts Tanking Depot. On February 25, the Tim Hortons was closed, with a large sign from the entrance.

CBC News called for an interview with someone from the Department of Environment and Climate Change to talk about the size of the leak, the way it was undiscovered and what effects it will have on the local water. Nobody was made available.

The spokesman for the department, Vicky Lutes, wrote that the department continues to receive reports on the leak. “The results show no effects on the offsite fountain and a reduction in the effects of the surface water,” she said.

She said Irving Oil carried out reviews and transferred questions to the company.

Nobody from Irving Oil would react to inquiries about information about the leak.