By NEILL BOROWSKI, TapInto Newark
CAMDEN – The City of Camden’s three 10,000-gallon underground fuel tanks at the Department of Public Works must be shut down and removed, according to an order from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
The tanks at 101 Newton Avenue do not comply with the DEP’s anti-corrosion standards, which require either a fiberglass-reinforced plastic tank or a steel one with built-in safeguards against corrosion.
A DEP administrative consent order, which City Council is expected to vote to accept at a Thursday afternoon special meeting, notes the violation was self-disclosed by the city in September.
Plans are not yet in place for new tanks and the city has yet to have a cost estimate for the project, Vincent Basara, the City of Camden communications director, told TAPinto Camden in an interview Thursday morning.
Basara said the city has been working with the DEP to fix the issue.
“There wasn’t an emergency situation that caused this,” said Basara, who added that there is no evidence the tanks are leaking.
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