The clean-up at a former industrial site in Erie took a huge step forward on Wednesday.

This week, crews working for the Erie County Redevelopment Authority began digging up and removing a pair of 30,000-gallon tanks from the former Quin-T Paper property.

That property is in the 100 block of East 16^th Street.

On Wednesday, one of those enormous tanks was wrestled out of the ground.

According to the Redevelopment Authority, the two tanks contain enough sludge to fill a couple 5,000-gallon tankers.

The Authority bought the Quin-T site in 2021.