Where I work were were running a diesel powered thingy that we were about to deliver to a customer. We ran it all weekend to make sure there were no issues. At about 2-3 gallons of fuel consumption an hour we were running down to the local gas station every few hours to fill up several five gallon cans.
The last trip to the gas station was around midnight Sunday night. I am taking a guess that they don't get weekend deliveries, and their underground storage tank was getting low by the time we made our last trip.
The fuel had been fine up until then. The last trip (same station, same pump) brought back heavily water contaminated fuel. Instead of being a blue color it was green. We didn't notice the color until after we had problems, but when we added one of those cans the engine started showing "water in fuel" faults. The water separator on the engine caught the water and we were able to prevent serious damage.
Anyway, the moral of the story I believe is that you can all of a sudden get a tremendous amount of water out of a station pump when it gets near the bottom of the tank.
I'm bringing my "Mr Funnel" to the gas station with me from now on when I buy my kerosene.
Rick
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