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Continued from Page 1 Continued fro¢ gallon diesel fuel tank. CO• of Lodi, refineries, and was sc Winery had been bought tractor,as a partner moving Con vide the bacteria, to controlling the flo The Azerbaijan another company and closed ht by Atter soil testa, water fasts wed with water The bacteria was Jan, which sir Property was sold o local develop- test wells, a and dirt, The and added o the billion dollar oil deal ers,contingent u P- the contamination determined that 1992 Process began in July companies in 1994. tion being foundp0Il no contamina_ the amination was confined to and within five da In Yeltsin's eyes That u ' Property and had not mi sax , t atr°ng smell of days, w e y f underground tank, made to any other subdivision or ' grated disc g a paradise for we from concrete, was installed o Mokelu mo the runners, bank awa indl 1909 to store b And d°uee olaebit of At the start of the cleanu jackers who ery's boilers. But aomeWhere aor thewn en soil contained 7,500 p the of rubles. have pocke the line, the wine �prts, the geologic ser- lion of parte Per mil a. groundwater. file] had not entered diesel. In the Did diesel in the tank.winery began storm was less than days there all that justify a "It was g contaminatedIf the groundwater had been By September, the p r M1Lfron. But nYel �a° seams ' a concrete vault wi e' the whole °f the diesel arY s free de Out D Op m the floor and was not a would have been bust," deal the and o Janu Chechen Praaide signed to hold diaides esel,° de- clean-up costa be said.The quip Count, Opposition Yevs re ma ,Out tell The diesel, as had so Thorpe said. enormous. would have been Dep�P t declared the land pposition�an assortmem ker oil,see me of the bun- Just cleaned u As the Th°1Pes be the bottom, level, the In the time t* , leaders,clan heads r Pe throw above groundwater mean ' ticians they discovered the gen was a searn of clay, Thorpe had to negotiate a deal e ' meted ground w gig' explained. The bunker oil that had 1188 self in and preclal urated wit as sat- see Partment of Fiah wlth'the De-G�rne to pre- power serve l'/4 acres h file] t y area sealed it, thus ptevenof the tank had tting along the river He Heb habitat weaps tacitly an Qedthe t opo De- t poured out of the ground like r> owe°fa boot,"Thorpe recalled, from re ceived Southern Pacific's also re_ tank crews, They dug for two days groundwater entering the a Prepared attack on Gr•'ht voted 1,400 Y and eaca- A hole 45 feet dee to erect a sound wallapproval 26e�d fta fiasco, h, Yards of dirt and the feet acro Property's east along'sthe T contamination was getting worse. 8 000 se was du p and 80 t°180 cent rt border that's a the Moscow Thorpe oto yards of con and more than so. the railroad �g l Choices; P/pnt• p Peed excavating sgdeal Thorpe initially,and stored on-site Proved a �tiEnte OItIlEW2Bl(0II�m �� (Q ordered tests. Thewas with the dTholrPe hadPers ee through dirt into asphalt,anted to turn the p� . undo A Pall the`_ 11 X61141 and sincethe 8 g b �e10 Ips eNBt d C• ' d removing fuel t xperience was tete e P but the process land. zery a'T d by and ae the t- W to buy the prop auks, he negotiated load,to expensive. He turned, in- leve!t 179k lair 1y liability of the c and assume The bacter- ct�me tthae eats diesn be /save it aloes 8me an enviromnen amination carbon diesel ' The ne;Orin \ made. tel assessment was dioxide and water, 8d[dge \ To he! eats up the diesel,the bacteria di it row ht p them out, the Thorpes It's not harmful o h dies. 8 in the Ford Const 173orpe hired a humans. ruction pant,Chemical Specialists, to pro.