Give you a little tip.
Dont know where that station in Knoxville gets their fuel & gas from, but here in the east, ours come from the several name brand storages at the tank farm, which are supplied through the four pipe lines coming across county from Dallas Tex.
Three are for gas & one for kero & Diesel. When the product is switched from kero to diesel, theres a long block of water put into the pipe line to seperate the two different products & that water travels through the pipe line & goes right into the large storage tank at the end of the line, so there is water in those huge storage tanks.
The water inside these tanks are pumped off once it gets up to a level & carried to hasmat, but its not impossible for water to get into the underground tanks at a station.
Things like the fitting for the underground tank, where the delivery tanker will hook their drop hose to, if the fitting should be lower than the parking lot pavement, like a low spot where those fittings are located, then when it rains water can puddle in that low spot & if the sealing cap not put back on good, that rain water can drain right into the underground tank. Where does it end up, you guessed it, mixed as your filling your tank if your filling while the tanker is dropping.
It is every delivery drivers job, to measure the amount of gas/fuel that is in that underground storage tank before & after they drop that load & those measurements recorded on their delivery paper work. At that time, they are normally suppose to use that paste (like mentioned earlier) on the end of the measuring stick to indicate the amount of water in the underground tank.
Also as noted earlier, when a load is being off loaded, it will in fact stir up the water in that tank & mix it with the gas/fuel along with any dirt/trash until it settle back to the bottom of the tank.
Every pump at a station you fill up at, has a screw on filter at that pump, at what time it will stop flowing like if water or trash enters I do not know, but I have seen some rusty outside of filters before, so they must have been on for a long time.
I dont think your insurance company, will have to hard of a time recooping their loss, because they can find & dig up details the general public never thought of about that company.
Neil
