Published Aug 27, 2015
Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain said his office sent an inspector to check the pumps at 10444 N. Mall Drive Friday. “There was water in two pumps and we locked those pumps down,” he said.
While Strain said he didn’t know how the water got in the fuel tanks, he said the most common way this happens is when a tank isn’t properly sealed and there’s a heavy rainfall.
The normal procedure is for the tanks to be completely drained, refilled with gasoline and then tested by inspectors with the Division of Weights and Measures. Strain said the process is “pretty quick” and usually completed in a few days.
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