As I walk home, or into town, every day I see the gross negligence going unhampered at the Chevron Cardlock at Maki rd. The workers there have a drain that drains right into a pond and sensitive creek and they know this. they wash their gas and oil covered trucks right beside the creek and watch it pour out the pipes into the water. There used to be a beaver dam there, there are still a pair of blue heron that go there seasonally for food. There used to be frogs there, and fish. Now there is just sludge from the garbage that Chevron's workers pour into the water. They have been asked to stop, they could easily wash the trucks on the other lot, higher and much farther from the river. They refuse to change. So this summer Im going to be pushing for the boycott of chevron products. Maybe this will fix the problem. UPDATE: and reply to the bookpusher from CHEVRON. We did notify the people in charge, people protested, they bitched, they cajoled, they complained. Guess what, years later and CHEVRON employees STILL plow oil filled snow into the creek. The herons either died or moved on, the beaver died. the pond is disgusting and the people in the building LAUGHED AT ME. Next step, when im able to walk, is doing the lady godiva and getting the attention it deserves. I will and it will stop, one way or another. So hows about instead of being a pencil pusher upholding the company line, you get off your fatcat bullshit ass and DO SOMETHING?!?!? other then lying, that is.
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7/6/2016 07:22:56 am
I worked for Chevron Texaco for many years. If there is no sump pump/filtration system in there I'd be shocked, especially if they were aware of it. At one of the stations I was once enployed at, a trucker once flooded the parking lot with diesel determined he could fill a tank with a hole in it faster than it could leak. The view of the truck was blocked from the cashier by four parallel gas pumps and the lot itself tilted downhill away from the store itself, so the fuel was traveling away from the store, bypassing several filtered drains and into a city drain that sat street adjacent. The company was not aware of this design flaw in the way their property was designed and contacted the EPA without hesitation. If there is even the slightest possibility that this nearby pond is being effected, especially if it formed there after the card lock was built, the EPA needs to be contacted: Toll-free: 1.800.465.8005 and Chevron may need to be informed that whoever is managing locally is aware and has been unwilling to work with their company to rectify the problem,
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AuthorPeggyTurner is the writer of the Mind's Eye Youth Newspaper's feature, The Gardener's Corner, as well as an avid gardener, botanist, and environmental rights advocate. Archives
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