posted 10 years ago
I would think in terms of a trench/pit/pond/constructed wetland, lined or not, featuring wood chips where the runoff is to be received. Wood is broken down by a large diversity of adaptable microbes.....mushroom mycelia among them....that can easily make the switch to digesting petrochemicals. Around and in this area you can grow an assortment of non-food plants (although I have read an article about woodchips inoculated with oyster mushrooms that did produce edible, residue-free mushrooms even when the woodchips were doused with diesel!) Firewood coppice and basketry materials come first to mind. I suppose there is still some danger from lead, especially if the area has been receiving drainage from vehicles from the time of leaded gasoline, and this is not broken down by microbes or plants. A chemical test might clarify this if you have the money for it.