Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Whitefish Bay's only gas station has been sold to a new owner after 51 years in business, 29 of which have been in its current location on Hampton Road.
One by one, drivers pulled into the lot of the old Harder's Shell station today expecting to fill up their gas tank, only to realize the gas pumps have disappeared and the store has been closed up. "It just seemed so sudden," said customer Lori Ahrenhoerster. "I always got gas there." The gas station at 303 E Hampton Road had been in business for decades before it closed Monday night. Harder's Amoco first opened in 1961 at Lydell Avenue and Hampton Road, and later switched to a Shell station and moved to its current location in 1983. Gene Harder, who owns the gas station, said his parents sold the property without his knowledge for financial reasons. He said his dad retired in 1997, and he has operated the business ever since. The sale of …
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Shorewood gas station contends "they are wrong," but will work with DNR to resolve issue.
In a meeting Thursday morning, state Department of Natural Resources officials gave the owner of Shorewood’s Citgo station a little over a month to hire a consultant and come up with a plan to address fuel contaminating soil near his station. John Hnat, the DNR program manager assigned to the case, said the owner, Syed Rizvi of Glendale, must hire a consultant by Oct. 24 and have a plan lined up by Nov. 14. If DNR officials are satisfied with the plan, the consultant will perform tests to pinpoint the actual source of the problem near the station. "The consultant will look for the source through a variety of tests, and hopefully remediation can follow," Hnat said. The station will pay for any consultant or other fees Hnat said. Hnat said …
Saturday, October 8, 2011
A 2008 private contractor's inspection report revealed a 1991 gasoline leak contaminated soil near Capitol Drive and Newhall Street.
The Shorewood Citgo gas station state and fire officials have shut down — in light of a gasoline leak in the village’s sewer system — has a history of contamination problems stretching back to 1991, Today's TMJ4 reports. The owner of the station at 1602 E. Capitol Dr., Syed Rizvi of Glendale, hired Benchmark Environmental Services in 2008 to examine the property and inspection results showed a 1991 fuel leak had contaminated soil near East Capitol Drive and North Newhall Street. The owner of Benchmark, an Illinois-based environmental engineering firm, told the news station that Rizvi ignored the results of the inspection, and left unaddressed, the contamination likely made its way into Shorewood's sewer system via groundwater and into …
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Bob McBride
4:55 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012
If you're not altering the footprint of the building (which wouldn't be necessary to convert the service bays to a convenience store and do other modifications to the interior), it's probably not a concern. more ›