Out of order signs pop up at Vermont gas pumps
BURLINGTON, Vt. Some businesses in Vermont have stopped selling gasoline as they decide whether to replace their underground tanks.
As of January first, 26 Vermont facilities still needed to replace 61 single-walled tanks as part of a 2013 law.
Replacing the tanks could cost between $100,000 to $200,000 thousand dollars to replace tanks that work perfectly fine.
Charlie Handy's family has owned Handy's Service station in Burlington for almost 50 years.
"Now I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it to do the tanks. Or if it's not worth it for me to do the tanks," Handy said.
The business has single- walled underground gas tanks.
Handy has to switch them out with double- walled tanks if they want to remove the out of order bags.
The Department of Environmental Conservation said it's a safety issue. Gas in single walled tanks is more likely to leak into the soil or ground water.
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for ages rundown bc of the $$ to remove the tanks. Unless someone wanted the property badly enuff at a most likely dirt cheap figure.
I can understand this regulatory enactment as stipulated. Imagine the pollution and mess of a leaking tank. Even if empty, it takes a special removal process I do believe.
And there have to be a lot of them, like the owner quoted in the article. This is going to put a lot of them out of business. And it's not like just any business could go in its place - there are gas stations in my area that have been simply abandoned - because the ground around the tanks is contaminated - what a mess! 
Two of them have been just sitting there for years. I don't know who owns the properties, but I imagine the cost of the clean up is prohibitive.
Sleep well, my friend - and hoping that better weather is coming eventually! 
But the Department of Environmental Conservation is a state agency - not that he'd know that. 