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PRESS RELEASE <br /> Contact Dale Kuenzli ( 517) 224-6747 <br /> SENATOR GAETH ANNOUNCES CLEAN-UP <br /> RE. Williams Landmark/Farmers Edge <br /> Edgerton Petroleum Site <br /> SSenator Ben Gaeth, Williams Landmark, and Farmers <br /> Edge announce a completion of the clean-up of the "prior to <br /> 1978 petroleum leak" at the petroleum site. <br /> The traces of petroleum discovered in July of 1990 <br /> were successfully removed by BIO REM of Butler, Indiana, using <br /> a technique of bioremediation, a rather revolutionary technique <br /> of using bacteria to consume the petroleum in place rather than <br /> transferring to a landfill. <br /> The clean-up required twelve weeks, the testing <br /> and getting an acceptance from the Bureau of Underground Storage <br /> Tanks 18 months , but commerce can now continue by Farmers Edge <br /> on the site without the encumbrance of contamination. <br /> tThe successful closure should advance the technique <br /> of using an place bioremediation as an alternative to excavation <br /> and landfilling according to Dale Kuenzli , Acting Manager of <br /> Williams Landmark, Inc. <br />' Original to Ned Price, Farmers Edge <br /> BCC: David Mann 5-29-92 <br /> William Fisher <br /> Senator Ben Gaeth <br /> Page 23 <br /> 60 <br />