Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection supervises Gas Station Storage Tank Cleanups Around the State and in Stamford

Here in Stamford , you may have noticed gas stations being shut down for extended periods of time--up to 6 months or longer.

In our neighborhoods, the A&P Citgo on Glenbrook Ave. closed for about 4 months; now the Newfield Greens station will be shut down for several months as private environmental clean up crews spend months cleaning up the toxic lead wastes that have leaked from underground storage tanks (UST's).

Costs run up to several hundred dollars per station.

On an earlier morning this month, I caught up with the cleanup crew at Newfield Greens and the result is this video.