Ignoramus13479 on Fri, 13 Jan
2012 04:28:11 -0600 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

This is why real estate that used to be a scrapyard (and nearby sites)
can often be an environmental nightmare.. oil and other fluids
released get into the soil (and migrate by air or underground)-- and
it can cost millions of dollars to remediate.

http://www.metalbulletin.com/Article...cost-238M.html
http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...nup-Settlement

Buying a former scrap yard or a scrapping operation (people who buy
stuff and scrap it) is definitely not on my priority list! Very scary stuff.

I have seen places where oil was puddling in giant, cavernous
buildings. They were muddy inside, but the liquid in mud was used oil,
not water.

What I want to know is: if I am buying a scrap yard or other
industrial site, with the intent of keeping it as an industrial, why
is it so necessary that I clean it up as if it would be used as the
playground of a daycare?

The EPA (State and fed) is run by people who have no idea of what
they are actually accomplishing.

tschus
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question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers
does it take to change a lightbulb.