Oil Tank Remediation

Death, taxes, and oil tank leaking are all assured to happen in life.  I say this as Rust Never Sleep" so eventually every metal tank will leak.  The tank owner will not suddenly find they lost hundreds of gallons because the corrosion hole starts as a pinhole which allows a slow leak to occur.   Think about a slow leak in a tire.

The photo below is a 1000-gallon tank, almost 11' long, a 500-gallon tank is half as long, well a couple of holes across the length of the tank allow oil to leak out of the tank across that footprint, and oil is pulled down by gravity.  

Talking about rust a bit further, the next photo is of an outside Aboveground Storage Tank (AST), how rusty it is?  Very common for outside tanks, but what you must realize is that the tank owner is not doing anything to prevent rust and its visibility.  A buried tank, well you know it's rusting but can't do anything about it.

Now to be fair there are tanks that have corrosion protecting, like in the photo below this tank was installed in 2002, it is uncommon to have a tank like this on a residential property and trust me if you don't have any paperwork that you have such a tank, you don't have one.

So we have now established that a tank can rust and leak, so what next?   You have likely heard that cleaning a tank leak is expensive and it is.   A small tank leak remediation can hover around $10,000 but can swell much higher.

Why are tank leaks so expensive? 

If your tank has been leaking for years it will cost more money than if it has been leaking for a few days, get it?

90% of tanks are close to a house, oil leaks go down into the ground so you may have to dig deep (16") holes to rem0ve the oil contaminated soils.  The photo below is a site that had contamination at 16'deep, but a foundation that only went 4' deep, so we have to support the foundation to safely dig the soil.  So you need an engineer to design a plan, permit fees, and structural supports, that will ding your bank account $10,000 for a small job and obviously more for a bigger oil tank cleanup. 

So aside from possibly having to structural support a house for an oil tank remediation, you have the physical work activities, meaning heavy equipment to dig up contaminated soils, equipment operators, disposal of contaminated soil, clean fill to replace contaminated soil, laboratory testing, project managers, and a report to the state to document the work.  

Curren started doing tank remediation in the 1990s, and over the years we have completed tens of thousands of projects.   You can rest assured that when you use Curren, you are dealing with experienced remediation professionals.

Both these projects dealt with soil and groundwater contamination, along with helical pier installation.

This remediation had contamination under a garage, we had to support the house, remove the garage floor to remediate the leak.

We have also built up the equipment necessary to perform remedial work. This includes smaller footprint machines, which is commonly required at residential sites.

By using our own equipment and personnel we can manage costs giving our clients both the best service and value.

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