Fuel Tank Services, Cleaning, Excavation & Disposal

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News - Sometimes you have to leave it there
Usually decommissioning fuel storage tanks involves removing them, but this is not always the best option.

News - The ever increasing excavation
Expecting the unexpected is always the rule when decommissioning a service station, as graphically illustrated by a recent David Plumb & Co contract at Greenwich, south London.

News - Managing the Risks of RG22
Are you aware of the risks in using the ubiquitous resin generated foam (RG) that is now used almost universally on fuel sites?

News - APEA Awards 2007
David Plumb & Co were runners up for the second year running at the APEA Awards 2007.

News - Does anyone have a ladder?
David Plumb & Co were called in to help the London Fire Service keep going, when it needed to replace out-of-date refuelling facilities with a new 23,000ltr combined diesel tank and dispensing pump.

News - Clean your tanks, don’t junk them
“Oil companies and other forecourt owners are wasting millions of pounds a year by disposing of perfectly serviceable fuel storage tanks instead of cleaning them when they have a sludge problem,” says David Plumb & Co director Nigel Plumb.

News - David Plumb & Co keep museum safe
While the tank may have been small, the difficulty of one of David Plumb & Co's latest projects at Worthing Museum was at the other end of the scale.

News - David Plumb keeps pollution out
When decontaminating the land at a service station, you would expect any contamination to be petrol, diesel or oil that had originated from the site’s own tanks. In that case cleaning the land is a relatively straightforward procedure of removing all the contaminated material to an approved landfill site and filling the hole with clean material – but what do you do when the contamination is leaching in from outside the site?

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