We oppose the Proposed Jet Fuel Tank Farm that is planned less than 500 Ft from the homes of the McCall Lane community and demand the relocation of the proposed tank farm.

The McCall Lane neighborhood of 1600 homes will have to suffer the health consequences of living near this fuel storage facility. this is an Environmental Justice issue, as this neighborhood is predominantly a low-income community of color
6 million gallons of fuel will be stored in this tank farm. Additionally, 64 fuel trucks per day will enter and exit the storage facility at 183 and Metropolis Drive (80-100 trucks per day during peak travel season).

We can look back at history to see the disastrous consequences of tank farms being build in communities of color. For more than 35 years, East Austin residents had lived next to several bulk fuel storage tank facilities (“Tank Farm”) that devastated the land and our community. Black and Brown residents nearby experienced chronic health issues, respiratory diseases, cancers, etc. There was also soil and groundwater contamination. In 1991 PODER and EAST joined forces to organize communities to advocate for the shutdown and removal of Tank Farm. After 3 years of tireless organizing, the people won. 15 years later, in 2008, was the clean-up was completed.

We will not let this racist history repeat itself. We demand you value people over profit and listen to the residents of McCall lane in their call to not build the tank farm near their homes.