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A concrete ringwall foundation requires an additional 1 to 2
weeks of construction.
During 1996 and 1997, CITGO placed in service the following
seven new tanks: Tanks Nos. 500, 501, 502, and 505 at the
Linden-Tremley, New Jersey, terminal; tanks Nos. 3 and 6 at the
Braintree, Massachusetts, terminal; and tank No. 9 at the
Vicksburg, Mississippi, terminal. The seven new tanks were built
on top of concrete ringwall foundations filled with sand.
At the Linden-Tremley terminal, CITGO’s contractor, Pitt-Des
Moines, Inc., agreed to construct tanks Nos. 501 and 5028 for
$1,244,750. CITGO hired Simpson and Brown, Inc., to construct
both foundations for $86,000. The total amount CITGO expended to
construct tanks Nos. 501 and 502 was $1,884,623.9
Pitt-Des Moines, Inc., also constructed tanks Nos. 3 and 610
at the Braintree terminal for a price of $1,028,466. For the
8Tanks Nos. 501 and 502 at the Linden-Tremley terminal are
48-foot-tall tanks with diameters of 117 feet, double bottoms,
cone roofs, and internal floating roofs.
9The record does not indicate the exact amount that CITGO
paid for the construction of tanks Nos. 500 and 505 and their
respective foundations at the Linden-Tremley terminal. However,
the total amounts CITGO expended were $935,002 for tank No. 500
and $799,157 for tank No. 505. Both tanks are approximately the
same size as tanks Nos. 501 and 502.
10Tanks Nos. 3 and 6 at the Braintree terminal are 45-foot-
tall, cone-roof tanks, with diameters of 125 feet.
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