Clean ups and environmental monitoring have been funded since 1991. Work ridding the local resoruces of traces of contamiantion from the spills that come from leaky underground fuel storage tanks never gets fully finished. Much f the work handling potential health hazards remains overdue. There are 465 active cases in a city that has handled thousands. Contamination cases often take challenging work to resolve. The typical case takes 3 years on average to solve. Soil and groundwater contamination cases, more complicated than the typical case, take an average 15 years work. During the year, the Department of Environmental Health will help prevent...
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