I don't see why.
Get a certificate stating this.
After all you've paid his firm for a new tank.
An officer of the firm appointed to the task should sign the certificate.
For domestic oil storage tanks the regulation states that a bunded oil tank must be used in the following circumstances:
1. Tank capacity is in excess of 2,500 litres
2. Tank is within 10 meters of controlled water (e.g. ditch, etc.)
3. Tank is located where spillage could run into an open drain (e.g. tarmaced drive sloped to road, or drain, etc.)
4. Tank is within 50m of a borehole or spring
5. Tank is over hard ground that could enable spillage to run off to reach controlled water (e.g. gulley or manhole cover).
6. Tank is located in a position where the vent pipe outlet is not visable from the fill point.
7. Tank is supplying heating oil to a building other than a single family dwelling.
8. Tank is subject to any other potential hazard individual to the site.
If you have a tank that will be within any of these situations, then you must install a bunded tank, otherwise a single skin oil tank will suffice.
7. Tank is supplying heating oil to a building other than a single family dwelling.
The first six conditions seem to relate to rural one off housing a opposed to a tank in a back garden of an urban or suburban house
- capacity is in excess of 2,500 litres
- within 10 meters of controlled water
- spillage could run into an open drain
- within 50m of a borehole or spring
- over hard ground that could enable spillage to run off to reach controlled water
- located in a position where the vent pipe outlet is not visible from the fill point.
The seventh seems to exonerate the single family dwelling
- supplying heating oil to a building other than a single family dwelling.
If you read through the 8 conditions, condition 7 seems to suggest that a bunded tank is not required where only a single dwelling is supplied from the tank.
(my emphasis)
Could someone else check my reading of this?
The last one seems to be a wild card
- subject to any other potential hazard individual to the site.
This seems to suggest that unless a spill is likely to get into a drainage system or watercourse and cause pollution, you don't seem to need a bunded oil tank.
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