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The state Department of Environmental Protection continues to monitor spills at two Sugarloaf <a class="go2wpf-bbcode" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="gas">gas stations, amongst hundreds of others throughout the state. DEP’s regional office in Wilkes-Barre covers 11 counties and thousands of gas stations, said Mark Carmon, DEP spokesman.Gas spills, he said, are common. specializes in breath Gas Alarm consulting,Gas Detector through internet.[url]Co Detector[/url],[url]Co Alarm[/url] always have been designed to alarm.Pilot Travel Station and Barron’s Sunoco, both on state Route 93 in Sugarloaf are just two of the spill sites DEP is watching.Carmon said in December 2005 or January 2006, Pilot was instructed to start a site characterization or an investigation into a gas spill. That investigation included water and soil sampling and a look at the station’s equipment. The company complied and DEP made recommendations to fix the spill.One of the recommendations was to set up underground monitoring wells. DEP and a Pilot consultant are discussing where the wells are on the site to make sure adequate ground water testing is done, Carmon said. “These wells are the way you can monitor and intercept and take a look at water sampling,” he said.The wells, Carmon said, will be monitored periodically.Pilot, he said, experienced some kind of malfunction between a diesel tank and pump, which prompted the investigation.Though spills and leaks are common, Carmon said each case is handled as being unique from the others.“This is all step by step. We don’t have a cookie cutter for this,” he said.Another case at Barron’s Sunoco began in 1998 after a car hit a pump and “knocked it all out of whack,” Carmon said. Repairs were made to the equipment but a leak or release of fuel occurred, he said.So DEP continued to monitor the situation and in 2003 it ordered a site characterization report for Barron’s. The report submitted in 2004 was reviewed and deficiencies were found. In February 2005 DEP got back to the companies’ consultant to see the problem fixed. Right now, he said, a DEP geologist and the consultant are discussing and reviewing ways to fix the problem by means of adequately placing monitoring wells around the site.Cleanup could take anywhere from a few months to a few years, he said. There is a stream that runs through the area and DEP officials saw some sheen on it that could be from the Pilot diesel leak.Carmon said though there is no public health concern in either case because there aren’t private wells in the area, there is an environmental concern that has to be addressed.There have been cases were a public health concern occurred after a gas leak; such as the case of the Tranguch gas spill that affected residents in Hazleton and Hazle Township. That spill was discovered in the early 1990s.Gas spills are so common that DEP has a separate department dubbed the Underground Storage Tank Program to handle them. Carmon said there are hundreds of active gas spill cases in the region.“Things break. We have severe winters that play havoc with underground equipment and tanks,” he said.Laws governing gas stations to prevent soil and water contamination were upgraded in the ’80s, Carmon said. In effect, those upgrades require more monitoring and leak protection. Leak prevention equipment at gas stations is required and owners do periodic testing as well, Carmon said. One of the best ways to discover a leak is when gas station owners take an inventory and discover a sudden and unexplained loss of gasoline.