MORE NEWS RE: MAC"S/BECKER'S CLEANUP

I am cautiuosly optimistic after a happenstance conversation yesterday with an employee involved in the cleanup of this gas station and store on Arthur St.. The company doing the work are Superior Petroleum Maintenance out of Sault Ste. Marie and apparently Mac's have used their services before under similar circumstances. The fellow I talked to advised me that there would be significant excavation and that the job would be going on well into the fall. Approximately four years ago I worked for Quantum Environmental at the old Strauss Fuels depot on Arthur St. north. That cleanup job entailed a fuel depot which had been there literally for decades and was right beside Canagagigue Creek. I was amazed at how deep the fuel had gone and how odourus at times the cleanup was. For brief periods we would wear breathing apparatus when the fumes became strong. Hopefully it won't be that bad in downtown Elmira.