Residents near the airport lost their plea with City Council to stop a massive new fuel storage facility, citing potential health and environmental hazards.
The city-owned airport can move forward with a controversial jet fuel storage facility after a narrow vote by the Austin City Council.from being built at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The facility will store up to 6 million gallons of jet fuel a few hundred feet from homes.
"The higher risk for the longer [term] is basically losing those flights," she said."The airlines would decide to wait till we either add the capacity or [airlines could] choose to go to a different airport." The first phase of the project, expected to be complete in less than two years, would install two 1.5 million gallon tanks as close as 640 feet from the nearest home on McCall Lane. The project's second phase, planned for at least 10 years from now, would add two more 1.5 million gallon tanks with the closest being 488 feet from the nearest resident.
The Austin Fire Department's battalion chief at the airport, Greg Pope, who's also a licensed private pilot, said storing Jet-A fuel was"not as concerning" to him as conventional aviation gasoline, because it's less volatile. "As for the houses in close proximity, with the 51 fire stations here in the city of Austin ... we would have the area covered more times over than we would need [in there's a fire]," Pope told the City Council this week.
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