The Mystery is Solved

We found out today what's been going on at the site of the old Maverick station. The gas pumps were leaking gas out for who knows how many years, polluting the ground underneath the station. All the drilling done in the last couple years has been to put something down at the level of the pollution to try and neutralize it. It didn't work, and so they had to tear down the building and they have now put up a high fence around the site and are digging up and taking out the polluted soil and putting something in the ground that's supposed to fix it, then they will have to put new soil in or fix the old and put it back. We were wondering at the store next door who was going to have to pay for all this and we all agreed we, the taxpayers, will probably be the ones footing the bill! We could smell gas in the air today as they were digging, I'd be worried about a spark igniting the gas in the soil and blowing everyone up if I were working there! I wonder what's in the white containers? We saw them unloading them the other day, maybe the chemicals or whatever they are putting in the ground?