March 07, 2018 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] - Airlines at St. Louis Lambert International Airport are teaming up to build a $50 million jet fuel storage facility.
The above-ground facility, on airport-owned land near Airport Road and James S. McDonnell Boulevard, will replace a 61-year-old underground fuel storage area just south of Terminal 1 along Lambert International Boulevard.
STL Fuel Company LLC, an airline consortium, plans to substantially complete the “fuel farm” by 2021. The facility initially will have three 722,000-gallon tanks but will have room for future expansion.
Lambert officials, in a news release Friday, said the decision to build a replacement facility was spurred by the age of the current one and new environmental regulations.
Jim Stevenson, a Southwest Airlines official who chairs the consortium, said the facility would be “cleaner for the environment, safer for the operators, more cost-efficient for all users, and will result in state-of-the-art, robust infrastructure.”
The facility will include an operations and administration building, surveillance cameras and security gates. A fuel transfer line will be built to connect to Lambert’s terminals and airline gates.
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