Our sources have been repeateadly revealing the story that construction personnel very recently and inadvertantly unearthed and punctured an old undergound fuel tank (reports vary between 1500 and 5,000 gallons,) thereby leaking significant amounts of toxic contaminents into the soil, and that most of this tank's contents drained into the ground at the "Junction" site.The consistent report is that the Ogden City Administration is keeping a lid on this news; and that State Environmental Quality Authorities have not been notified about this possible hazard.
Rudi has spent a fair amount of time in the past few days investigating this situation, to no avail. Usually reliable local sources have seemed frightened and tight-lipped, to say the least.
If any of our gentle readers have information about this little problem, we would all appreciate hearing about it here.
Chime in on this, if you like, gentle readers.
Your names will always remain anonymous.
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The only toxic contaminates that I know of is Mayor Godfey and his new lap dog Glasman.
Don't know if this is true or not, but it's highly likely given certain Ogden lore. You know, those old stories handed down by word of mouth.
Namely, that during WWII, when Ogden and the rest of America were about to be subjected to gas rationing, certain wealthy and enterprising Ogdenites, working with gas station owners, set private underground gas tanks near the gas stations and paid for them to be filled. In this way, these individuals could refuel at will, (probably, however, in the dead of night,) from their own private stash and not be bothered by the onerousness of rationing when it happened.
When toxicity was first discovered at the mall site, I thought of the tanks I had heard of, asked around, and was told that they were on Kiesel between 24th and 25th and had been removed in the '60s or sometime around there.
However, this does not preclude other gas station owners with wealthy and somewhat unscrupulous clientele doing the same thing.
The problem with them was of course that after the war, there they were. Sort of difficult to remove them without exciting comment, I would think, and therefore some might just have stayed put.
When we were discussing the oil found earlier, someone posted that there was indeed a gas station located directly on the site, but I have forgotten exactly where. Near the Earnshaw site, perhaps? Anybody remember?
Mr Rudi,
How about YOU sending on this article to the proper authorities and they can investigate if they think there is a need. Just toss it in their laps.
It's a frightening thot that an explosion could turn the Junction into an inferno some time....perhaps on a very crowded day! I've been hearing the same stories.
Public Servant..is the little Mayor's lap large enuf to hold Brandon and Cook also????
What Dian wrote is true. My Brother owwned the Mac-Robinsons Garage between Keisel and Grant Avenues ans 24th St and 25th streets. After the war he was afraid to get rid of the gas he had salted away for the very respectd upper crust of Ogden's elite. They were also afraid to take any of it for fear of investigtions. He was left with thousands of gallons of gas in tankd under the garage. Most of these people are now deceased including him and so it can be told. They sort of left him holding the bag. And these same people who got him to reak the law, abndoned him afterwards. and took their business elsewhere. he eventually went out of business. I know this for a fact, because he and I talked about ition the seventies before he died.
Public Servant, if in fact you are one - I think you are being a bit premature with Mr. Glasmann.
Be patient, I believe he will suprise you.
One thing I know for sure, he aint no lap dog to anybody. He ran on a common sense platform, and I believe that is what he will deliver. The new council has only been in place two months, way too soon to be making rash judgements.
Let's see now....the spill (IF in fact there is one - should not be too difficult to find out)is between 24th and 23rd Streets. Anonymous says the garage was between 24th Street and 25th Street. This does not relate! In addition, here we have someone who (allegedly) had many gallons of gasoline stored underground for use by the privileged class but that class "abandonded" him. This left him in the "unfortunate" position of having a lot of free gasoline for, it seems to me, his use.
It don't make a heck of a lot of sense that the old fat cats of Ogden would be leaving a dime on the table let alone 5,000 gallons of gasoline under the ground!
Something doesn't quite ring true here. Even at .20 cents a gallon in that day and age, you're talking a thousand bucks.
The Glasmann's, Eccles', Brownings, etc. didn't get rich leaving money laying around.
They don't? Explain Jim Stravakakis's weird act.
Dear Og and Co.
What are you talking about?
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