Gas Tank
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 Honda CB CB 200 1974 Green Honda CB 200 Motorcycle under 1700 miles  US $822.00
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 Honda Magna 1983 Honda V65 Magna US $1,075.00
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 Honda CB CB 1974 CB550 Four Vintage Motorcycle Excellent US $2,425.00
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 Yamaha TX650 650 yamaha ohc electric its brown and in fair cond US $1,200.00 |
 Honda Honda SL350 K2 US $202.50
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 Yamaha XS 1981 xs650 chopper bobber rat rigid US $4,800.00
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 Honda CA Honda 350 Scrambler 1972 Honda CL350 Runs Great Very Nice Low Miles US $2,500.00
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 Kawasaki KZ 440 LTD Belt 1982 Kawasaki US $500.00
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 Honda Shadow 1983 Honda Shadows 750 2 US $260.00
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 Honda Gold Wing Goldwing 1987 Honda Goldwing fresh paint US $560.50 |
 Harley Davidson Softail Fatboy Custom 1998 Harley Davidson Fatboy US $8,500.00
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 Honda CB 1973 HONDA CB 350 FOUR US $630.00
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 Yamaha XT Yamaha XT550 XT 550 US $320.50
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 Yamaha FJ1200W 1989 Yamaha FJ1200 FJ 1200 US $3,400.00
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 Yamaha TY350 1985 Yamaha TY350 Classic TRIALS Bike Vintage 276mi US $1,500.00 |
What happens when an underground gas tank leaks?
When an underground gas tank leaks, what sort of environmental issues does it cause? What happens to the gas or oil once it has leaked out into the soil?
This is a relatively common environmental problem. The first thing that happens is that the oil (or gas as in gasoline but not gas as in natural gas) tends to fill up the soil in the original excavation made for putting the tank in the ground. Usually sand is used as fill around the tank and this is a porous material that has a lot of space for liquid to fill.
over time, the oil (gasoline) will also migrate into the surrounding sediments. Normally the oil will migrate primarily downward until it hits the water table. When it hits water, it then starts to spread sidewards (oil floats on water). This sidewards movement may occur right away if the water table is high and already at the level of the tank (quite common).
As the oil moves, it coats the particles of soil and contaminates the stuff. Once it hits water, it also contaminates the water, and the water is always moving, even if slowly, and thus the contamination will migrate in the same direction as the groundwater is moving.
If the leak is not discovered for a very long time, large volumes of soil and huge areas of groundwater may become contaminated.
Eventually, the contaminated groundwater will reach some poor person's well and make it unusable or will reach a stream, river, or waterbody and start to contaminate that.
If so much oil has leaked that a floating pond of ouil has developed on the groundwater surface, it is very difficult to clean up the problem. Normally, one just digs up all the contaminated soil and sends it off somewhere for treatment or isolation (burial), but when there is a floating phase (pond of oil on the water table), the oil has to be pumped out and this is difficult and slow.
All the time that the soil and water has oil in or on it, the groundwater will continue to be contaminated. to stop the contamination of the water, one must remove all of the oil that leaked, whether as coatings on the soil particles or as a separate liquid mass.
The gas or oil will also give off vapors that can affect nearby buildings or whatever as well.