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2 <br />further repairs to the exterior of the house. The necessity <br />for this huge expense in'repair work is the direct result of <br />n previous expansion of Terrace Heights Estates. <br />As briefly as possible, I will explain: In November of <br />1972 my family was forced to abandon our home because a mass- <br />ive leakage of fuel oil from the Terrace Heights fuel system <br />had saturated our land, pooled around the foundation of the <br />house, leaked into the basement, polluted our water supply, <br />and filled the house with the sickening, overpowering stench <br />of fuel -oil fumes. The house became completely uninhabitabld <br />and remained that way for three and a half years. During that <br />time we (my husband and I and six children including a new <br />baby) were forced to move from place to rented place, like <br />refugees. We wound up all but bankrupt, our lives disrupted, <br />the older children eventually having to live with friends or <br />relatives - -it was a terrible exndrience that did great harm <br />to us all. We will never forget it and we will never regain <br />what we lost. We filed suit against the trailer park, but its <br />insurance company refused to pay and the lawsuit dragged on and <br />on, from 1972 until 19767 <br />Some important points in connection with the oil spill and <br />the ensuing conduct of the trailer park management should throw <br />some light on our extreme opposition to their plan for further <br />expansion. In the legal depositions taken by their own attor- <br />neys and ours, Clarence Bell, James Veilleux, and Frank Graczyk <br />acknowledge the following: <br />1. They failed to notify the Minnesota Pollution Control <br />Agency of the spilling of over 10,000 gallons of fuel oil into <br />The <br />S C � �L c d i ii <br />/ %7i <br />Page-10- <br />