The Burlingame gas station that closed its doors after a leaking gasoline contamination problem on Broadway caused major road closures and power outages has reopened.
The A&A Gas & Mart gas station was cleared for reopening after inspections found a piece of equipment on an underground fuel storage tank had not been properly installed and could have been a source of leaked fuel, Preston Merchant, San Mateo County Health communications officer, said. That problem has since been corrected, he said in an email.
“That may have been a source of leaked fuel — that’s not definitive,” Merchant said. “Further testing has not shown any leaks.”
A barrage of additional testing didn’t find any other leaks, he said, and the gas fuel leakage in the area around Broadway and California Drive is still under the surface and remains to be addressed.
A&A Gas Inc. and Mash Petroleum Inc., the fuel services operator and owner at A&A Gas & Mart, were previously named as responsible parties in an investigation into gasoline contamination because there was sufficient evidence that fuel contamination exists on the property.
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That action didn’t confirm A&A was the source of the fuel contamination, San Mateo County Environmental Health said previously.
The contamination encroached into both Pacific Gas and Electric and AT&T electric vaults in the first and second weeks of January. Resealing those vaults caused major, weeklong road shutdowns along parts of both Broadway and California Drive, and correlated power outages deeply affected local businesses.
In response to the purported businesses losses caused by the power outages and road shutdowns, a class action lawsuit was filed against A&A Gas Inc. and Mash Petroleum Inc. in February.
Burlingame law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy chose to move forward with the suit to seek an undetermined amount of damages for businesses that lost customers, revenue and inventory as a result of those outages and closures, attorney Nanci Nishimura, who is representing the plaintiffs, said previously.
A representative for A&A did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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