As I mentioned in an earlier post, Steve and I recently purchased the old Mt. Nebo Store. The biggest reason that this property was on the market for so long and did not sell was because of the underground gas tanks. The horror stories that abound of the money that people had to spend when they had tanks removed and there was contamination of the soil found around the tanks is enough to make even the brave cringe. Banks will not give a mortgage for any property that has underground tanks and most insurance companies want nothing to do with them either. Steve watched the price on the property come down lower and lower and thought it was a chance worth taking. I protested that if everyone else thought it was too risky, why would we be stupid enough to try it.
The tanks came out on July 22 and the excavator told us he thought we had a 50/50 chance of passing the soil tests that DEP required. While I'm envisioning hundreds of thousands of dollars being needed to bring the area around the tanks into compliance which would probably eventually bankrupt us, Steve was quietly confident that they would pass. He did not feel that God would bring us this far to fail us now.
Yesterday we received the results. Under the Site Assessment Results an x was placed in the square that read, "No Obvious Contamination - Sample Results Meet Standards/Levels."
More and more I am realizing that I just need to give this project up and leave it in God's hands. My faith has been very weak, but slowly I am getting more and more excited about the possibilities of this property that we have purchased. Onward we go.
PS: We now have a name for the business: The entire facility will be known as the "Mt. Nebo Center." The discount grocery store will be called "Martic Store," and the food bank will be known as "Martic Pantry."
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