UNIVERSITY SUMP
May 1st, 2001
BY MONICA DOBIE
A COLLEGE in Newfoundland, Canada, has discovered that it may be sitting on a bonanza of oil, because of a spill that occurred twenty-five years ago. The oil was discovered during an excavation for foundations for a new medical science building in the College of the North Atlantic, in the provincial capital St John's.
About 1,154 barrels of oil and water mixture has now been removed and it is uncertain how much is left. The source was old leaking underground tanks, whose oil settled on a layer of bedrock.
A COLLEGE in Newfoundland, Canada, has discovered that it may be sitting on a bonanza of oil, because of a spill that occurred twenty-five years ago. The oil was discovered during an excavation for foundations for a new medical science building in the College of the North Atlantic, in the provincial capital St John's.
About 1,154 barrels of oil and water mixture has now been removed and it is uncertain how much is left. The source was old leaking underground tanks, whose oil settled on a layer of bedrock.
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