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Goo Surfaces in Refinery Town; Attention Turns to Old Oil Pit
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1995-09-10 00:00:00
Dianne Branan says that she and her two daughters and four grandchildren have put up with vomiting, headaches and diarrhea for years. Then, about two weeks ago, a pungent black goo began appearing in a hole in her back yard.
"All summer, people have asked me if I had a gas leak because it smelled so," said Mrs. Branan, who has lived in the house for 17 years. "I'm always sick."
Mrs. Branan lives across the street from the playground of the G. W. Carver Elementary School, where a similar smelly, tar-like substance was discovered on June 29. Some close neighbors also say they have found the goo in their yards.
It has been long forgotten -- if known at all by some residents -- that Carver Elementary was built in 1946 atop a former oil storage pit -- on land donated by the Humble Oil Company, which became Exxon.
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