Residents want answers after fuel leak shuts down a Woodstock Tim Hortons

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residents-want-answers-after-fuel-leak-shuts-down-a-woodstock-tim-hortonsResidents want answers after fuel leak shuts down a Woodstock Tim Hortons

New Brunswick

Five large pump trucks idle loudly in an otherwise empty Tim Hortons parking lot in Woodstock. Some have the words Environmental Services stenciled on their sides, while others say Septic Tank Cleaning, Oil Spill Response, and Hydro Excavation.

Beardsley Road location been closed for weeks, won’t reopen until May, company website says

Shane Fowler · CBC News

· Posted: Jan 10, 2025 3:48 PM EST | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

An aerial view of a Tim Hortons with four pump trucks surrounding it with green hoses running into the ditches nearby. Across the parking lot is in Irving oil gas station.

The Tim Hortons on Beardsley Road in Woodstock has been closed for weeks, surrounded by pump trucks that people say have been running day and night. (Shane Fowler/CBC News)

Five large pump trucks idle loudly in an otherwise empty Tim Hortons parking lot in Woodstock.

Some have the words Environmental Services stencilled on their sides. Others say Septic Tank Cleaning, Oil Spill Response.

Some people in the area say they heard truckers had complained about the smell of gas on their hands after washing up at the now darkened and closed Tim Hortons. And other customers had complained about the taste of fuel in their beverages as far back as late November.

“Everybody I know, they discuss it,” said Verne Beers, 81, who lives about 700 metres from that Tim Hortons location on Beardsley Road.

But despite all their questions, it was only this week the province confirmed that there had,

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