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Parking lot traffic has been interrupted periodically as pumps, canopy and, finally, tanks were removed from the west side of long-time local business Coffee Cup Fuel Stop over the last couple of months.

Then, last week, crews again closed the area immediately surrounding the site as two 30,000 gallon steel tanks wrapped with a composite of fiberglass and other materials were lowered into the prepared seat.

Coffee Cup manager Toni Kornemann says the former tanks had reached the end of their safe life time, as has the tanks beneath the south pumps.

"Some of these tanks are from 1986," she...