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``There's nothing wrong with a tank in the ground,'' said
Tom Lucas, Sarasota operations manager of TECO Peoples
Gas. ``It's when it sits out of sight that things can go wrong.''
They rust, start to leak, ``or somebody hits them with a
backhoe when they start digging,'' said Gary Weil, president of
St. Louis-based EnTech Engineering, which uses ground penetrating
radar to help companies find tanks and other
underground hazards. ``Either way the results are the same -
you get an explosion or a fire.'