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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state has shut down a second Northland gas station after a Department of Agriculture inspector found water in one if its in-ground fuel storage tanks. This is the second gas station in less than a week.

FOX 4 first broke the story last Friday. The state shut down regular and mid-grade pumps at the KCI Kwik Shop in Ferrelview after an inspector found more than an inch of water in the station’s in-ground fuel storage tanks. Several customers who bought gas there had damaged engines and were out hundreds of dollars. Those customers have since heard from the station’s insurance company and have gotten their repaired vehicles back, but now more customers are concerned about gas from a second station.

Asif Rawoot owns the Shell Station and World Liquor #10 at Parvin Road and Russell Road, off of Interstate 29 North. FOX 4 first talked with him Friday. He didn’t want to go on camera then because he said he took his own samples and that no one would find any water in any of his tanks. After the state found water Monday, he then blamed heavy rains we saw in the metro several weeks back.

FOX 4 asked him Tuesday what happened to the samples he took where he said no water was found. Rawoot deferred to Monday’s inspection, saying: “He didn’t find anything yesterday when he was checking.” When FOX 4 asked whom, he said, “the state guy.”

The state found two inches of water in one of the regular unleaded storage tanks and issued a stop sale on the regular and mid-grade pumps. When FOX 4 reminded Rawoot of those findings, he said, “The state found everything, that’s why there’s a problem, right?”

It’s a problem that caused driver Michael Moore the use of his two-week-old car. It broke down after he filled up at the Shell station.

“Jack Miller Kia informed me that about 70 percent of the sample they took was water in my tank,” he said.

Moore took a sample from the Jack Miller Kia to Rawoot but said he was denied any help.

“They didn’t really believe me. I went in there with the sample on Friday night and the owner claimed I didn’t purchase my gas from the station,” he said.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Rawoot said he’s handed over insurance information. FOX 4 asked what he was doing for the drivers with damaged cars. He said, “We’ll take care of it. Whatever they spend, we’ll take care of that part.”

State rules say the station must identify the source of the water and repair it, remove and replace the fuel, install new filters, and properly dispose of the bad gas. Rawoot said he did all of that Tuesday and that the state cleared him to sell gas Tuesday afternoon.

FOX 4 reached out to the Department of Agriculture several times but didn’t get a response about whether or not Rawoot’s gas was clear for sale.