Quote Originally Posted by armygreywolf View Post
DNR in my state would have ate the junk yard alive. Chances are a simple cleanout gone wrong would have turned into incinerating the first 6 or 8 feet of soil, EPA would get involved and something like this would easily have snowballed into a million dollars in fines. I've personally seen just that happen. We do not do bare ground cleanouts and never will, if the mess is not contained in a building or on a parking lot...pass.
It'd be like that here in NY also - in fact, Joan Roth who use to own Roth Steel is currently in jail because of how bad she let Roth Steel get. Last I heard they were dumping barrels of toxic liquid into the middle of the yard. Thankfully none of it got into the ground water or Lake Onondaga. Weitsman was going to step in and clean it up but backed out when the estimate from the EPA came back to be in the millions, then another firm from Canada was going to buy it and backed out for the same reason. Property sits abandoned currently.