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Geoff Greenwood,
Communications Director
515-281-6699,
geoff.greenwood@iowa.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 9, 2010
Decree Resolves Record Storage Tank Enforcement
(DES MOINES, Iowa) A Polk County judge has approved Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller’s request for a $250,000 civil penalty against a Wisconsin-based petroleum company doing business in Iowa for underground storage tank (UST) violations.
District Judge Robert B. Hanson entered a consent decree against Bulk Petroleum Corporation. Bulk Petroleum is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Mequon, Wisconsin, which owns underground storage tanks at retail gasoline facilities in Iowa and other states.
The court’s decree resolves the state’s 2007 lawsuit against the company, which is the largest UST enforcement action in Iowa history. The case involves 92 underground storage tanks (USTs), with a capacity of 800,000 gallons of product, at 28 retail gasoline stations located in 14 cities and 9 counties in central and eastern Iowa.
The violations, admitted by Bulk Petroleum, include failure to comply with UST requirements for protection of steel USTs from corrosion, prevention and detection of petroleum leaks, maintenance of records, providing notice of leaks, and conducting assessment of the contamination.
“UST regulations protect Iowans, our groundwater and our environment,” said Attorney General Tom Miller. “We cannot allow companies to cut corners and put Iowans at risk.”
Bulk Petroleum is permanently enjoined from further violations. In addition, the company is ordered to provide UST regulatory training to supervisory personnel, adopt standard maintenance and recordkeeping procedures, conduct biannual inspections of USTs by Iowa DNR certified inspectors, and annual inspections by Bulk Petroleum employees or contractors.
“This consent decree is an appropriate resolution for serious violations of the law,” Miller said.
In 2009, Bulk Petroleum filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin. On May 4, 2010, the Bankruptcy Court approved entry of the consent decree in the Polk County suit. The civil penalty owed to the State is an unsecured debt, payment of which is subject to bankruptcy proceedings.
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Violations of UST regulations were identified during compliance inspections conducted in calendar years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 at the following Bulk Petroleum retail gasoline facilities:
CLAIM |
STATION NAME |
USTs
(gallons) |
ADDRESS |
COUNTY |
INSPECTION DATES |
1 |
Citgo Station #574 |
10000
10000
10000
10000 |
4600 Fleur Drive,
Des Moines |
Polk |
February 21, 2005
April 7 & 10, 2006
December 14, 2007 |
2 |
Citgo Station #582 |
12000
6000
6000 |
2701 Ingersoll Avenue,
Des Moines |
Polk |
May 31, 2005
February 26, 2008 |
3 |
Citgo Station #596 |
10000
10000
10000
10000 |
3804 Hubbell Avenue,
Des Moines |
Polk |
February 18, 2005
December 21, 2007
May 15, 2008 |
4 |
Citgo Station #597 |
10000
10000
10000
10000 |
4028 N.E. 14th Street,
Des Moines |
Polk |
May 26, 2005
December 27, 2007
June 12, 2008 |
5 |
Four Mile Texaco Station #536 |
12000
8000
5000 |
3732 Easton Blvd.,
Des Moines |
Polk |
December 13, 2005 |
6 |
Citgo Station #587 |
10000
10000 |
3417 Harrison St.,
Davenport |
Scott |
April 26, 2006
December 21, 2007 |
7 |
Citgo Station #588 |
10000
10000
10000 |
1026 W. River Drive,
Davenport |
Scott |
November 2, 2005
April 28, 2008 |
8 |
Citgo Station #555 |
6000
6000
6000
6000 |
2080 W. River Drive,
Davenport |
Scott |
April 21, 2006
May 26, 2008 |
9 |
Citgo Station #534 |
12000
10000
10000 |
11423 160th Street,
Davenport |
Scott |
April 21, 2006
December 21, 2007 |
|
10 |
Citgo Station #535 |
8000
8000
8000 |
101 E. Mayne,
Blue Grass |
Scott |
October 17, 2005
December 27, 2007 |
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CLAIM |
STATION NAME |
USTs
(gallons) |
ADDRESS |
COUNTY |
INSPECTION DATES |
11 |
Citgo Station #539 |
10000
6000
4000
4000
2000 |
1220 North Cody Road,
Le Claire |
Scott |
July 12, 2005
December 27, 2007 |
12 |
Kerr McGee Station #576 |
15000
10000
6000 |
100 First Ave. NW,
Cedar Rapids |
Linn |
February 1, 2005
December 20, 2007 |
13 |
Mobil Station #581 |
10000
10000
10000
10000 |
3326 Center Point Rd. NE,
Cedar Rapids |
Linn |
February 2, 2005
December 19, 2007
June 30, 2008 |
14 |
Citgo Station
#572 |
10000
10000
10000
10000 |
515 Broadway St.,
Waterloo |
Black Hawk |
March 15, 2005
December 3, 2007
June 5, 2008 |
15 |
Citgo Station #520 |
6000
6000
6000
6000 |
1900 Summer Street,
Burlington |
Des Moines |
February 17, 2005
December 27, 2007 |
16 |
Jiffy Station #505 |
12000
10000
6000 |
326 Lincoln Way,
Ames |
Story |
March 1, 2006
February 20, 2007
December 20, 2007 |
17 |
Citgo Station #550 |
10000
10000
6000
6000
6000 |
4164 Highway 63,
Malcolm |
Poweshiek |
August 22, 2005
January 18, 2006
January 29, 2007
August 13, 2007
December 20, 2007 |
18 |
Citgo Station #525 |
10000
10000 |
101 E. Mt. Pleasant, W. Burlington |
Des Moines |
December 27, 2007 |
CLAIM |
STATION NAME |
USTs
(gallons) |
ADDRESS |
COUNTY |
INSPECTION DATES |
19 |
Breakpointe Station #537 |
10000
10000
11000 |
1111Lincoln S.E., Bondurant |
Polk |
April 6, 2005
August 7, 2007
August 17, 2007
December 18, 2007
December 31, 2007
May 27, 2008 |
20 |
Citgo Station #571 |
6000
6000
8000 |
1443 Second Ave, Des Moines |
Polk |
October 24, 2006
June 2, 2008 |
21 |
Citgo Station #586 |
6000
6000
12000 |
1500 N.W. 86th Street, Clive |
Polk |
January 30, 2008
June 2, 2008 |
22 |
Citgo Station #545 |
6000
8000 |
1632 Rockingham Rd., Davenport |
Scott |
December 27, 2007
July 2, 2008 |
23 |
Citgo Station #573 |
8000
8000
8000
8000 |
1800 S.E. 14th St., Des Moines |
Polk |
January 30, 2008
May 28, 2008 |
24 |
“C” Store & Deli #99 |
10000
6000
5000 |
1800 South B Ave., Nevada |
Story |
December 7, 2007
May 27, 2008 |
25 |
Citgo Station #589 |
8000
8000
8000 |
1001 “A” Avenue W., Oskaloosa |
Mahaska |
October 1, 2007 |
26 |
Can City Citgo Station #510 |
8200
8200 |
303 E. Platt St., Maquoketa |
Jackson |
January 3 & 26, 2007
December 18, 2007
June 5, 2008 |
27 |
Citgo Station #595 |
10000
10000
10000
10000 |
3761 E. University
Des Moines |
Polk |
December 19, 2007
May 29, 2008 |
28 |
West Kimberly Jiffy Station #540 |
10000
10000 |
3815 W. Kimberly, Davenport |
Scott |
January 16, 2008
June 5, 2008 |
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