On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:53:24 -0800, Oren wrote:

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:26:03 -0500, willshak
wrote:

I'm guessing the oil company is going to be held responsible for this,
but in all fairness that fill pipe should not have been there in the
first place.

Jon


It was delivered to the wrong house!!! The oil company truck should not
have been there. It is their fault.

The article (last sentence) did say the oil company's insurance will
pay for the clean-up and the rebuilding of the house.
A house around the corner from a friend's place had an underground
tank that was "decomissioned" about 30 years ago when they switched to
natural gas. The old tank leaked. They sold the house. The new owners
found oil in the sump - the seller and the seller's insurance spent
just over 1.2 million dollars removing all the soil from around the
building, and under half of the basement.
The house isn't, and has never been, worth 1 million - but the cost of
removing everything and demolishing the house would have been very
close to the final cost, and there would have been no house value
left.