An Alabama pipeline leak has some Gwinnett County residents scrambling to find gas. But county government vehicles and school buses have all they need for at least 11 days.
According to Communications Director Joe Sorenson, Gwinnett County buys fuel as a member of the North Georgia Fuel Cooperative, along with other public agencies. Under the program, Gwinnett can buy fuel from three suppliers through a competitive bidding process.
The Gwinnett County School District gets its fuel – including fuel for school buses – from the county. And county government has plenty on hand for now.
Sorenson said Gwinnett has 11 fuel sites with a total capacity of 179,000 gallons of unleaded fuel and 182,000 of diesel fuel.
“We received scheduled, routine deliveries today and our scheduled deliveries for tomorrow have been confirmed,” he said in an e-mail to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“Our 11 fuel sites are currently at normal operating levels,” Sorenson said. “Normal operations could continue for 11 days at today’s fuel levels (which does not include the fuel we expect to receive tomorrow).”
Bottom line: No need to worry the kids will be stranded on a school bus that’s run out of gas.
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