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Laurel Mills Store, Baldwin’s Grocery in Washington and Jenkins’ Garage in Amissville — are lucky enough to have newer tanks and will not be affected immediately by the regulations. Depending on when their tanks were buried, their deadline is still several years away.
Others, like Burke’s Grocery in Woodville and Hillsdale Grocery on U.S. 211, are feeling the pinch now.
“We will not have to remove any of our tanks — yet,” said Hillsdale’s owner, Jerry Foster. He recently installed a new tank, but suspects that all of his tanks will have to be replaced by 1998.
In the interim, he is faced with hundreds of dollars in expenses for overflow protection equipment, yearly leakage tests, as well as the mandatory spill insurance.
Mabel Burke of Burke’s Grocery in Woodville said they will probably end up removing two of the store’s three tanks, which now hold regular and premium unleaded gasoline and kerosene. But they haven’t reached a final decision on what will go. “It all depends on the cost of insurance.”
The laws of supply and demand have created a seller’s market for the required pollution insurance, according to distributors who have shopped around for the best prices.
Mr. Bankhead said records show insurance premiums paid by petroleum distributors have increased as much as 600 to 800 percent in the past three years. “Ours has not increased that much, but we have seen it triple in the past year.”
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