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County officials propose larger, modern fuel island to improve emergency readiness and lower operating costs
Summary
County staff proposed replacing an aging two‑pump fuel island with a modern facility of up to eight pumps, larger tanks and cloud-based monitoring to improve emergency readiness and reduce fuel costs.
Washington County staff presented a proposal to replace the county’s aging fuel island and expand fueling capacity to serve county fleets and improve emergency readiness.
Michael Stewart, chief of staff, told the County Services Committee the current road-department fuel island is over 20 years old, restricts the county to a single leased fuel vendor and has had reliability problems. “We can only purchase through one vendor… we’ve run out of fuel this month because they weren't able to come to us,” Stewart said. The…
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