Southeast Austin residents met in an effort to stop the construction of a new fuel facility.
Existing structures marked in yellow. The purple, orange, and pink markers represent possible alternative fuel storage sites: Purple sites conflict with the new, proposed South Terminal. Orange sites conflict with the environment, due to their proximity to Onion Creek and, in one case, an archeological site. The pink site conflicts with an Aircraft Maintenance area the airport plans to develop.
The plan to relocate and expand the airport's fuel storage has been in the works since 2017, but neighbors across U.S. 183 say they first heard about it last fall; they've been organizing against it since.
"How much jet fuel is going to dissipate into the air of the several million gallons of jet fuel sitting on site?" asked Patrick Tighe, who lives nearby."When these have been in other neighborhoods, people have gotten cancer, gotten all sorts of different illnesses." At the meeting Saturday, neighbors were uniformly opposed to any potential offer from the city and airport to buy them out of their homes, which some doubted the city could afford in any event."They want to keep their neighborhood together," said, a leader in the effort to close and remediate the Springdale Road tank farm.
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