3 Years After Kalamazoo River Spill, Enbridge Prepares For Another 350K Cubic Yards Of Dredging

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(Reuters) - Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

More than 20,000 barrels of heavy Canadian crude oil gushed into the Kalamazoo River system after multiple small corrosion-fatigue cracks caused the rupture of Line 6B in July 2010, the largest onshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Enbridge Energy Partners, the U.S. unit of Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc received an order from the EPA in March requiring more containment and recovery of oil from the spill. It has until the end of the year to complete the additional dredging.

Twelve miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan, will be temporarily shut while Enbridge dredges approximately 350,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment. Over the past three years nearly 1.15 million gallons of oil have been recovered from the river.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/us-enbridge-kalamazoo-cleanup-idUSBRE96T17920130730

[rurallib]

1. Just wondering about this spill

and the one in Arkansas.
1.5 million barrels? That's a big spill.