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A pipeline leak that has spilled anywhere from 800,000 gallons to 1 million gallons of oil into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River has resulted in evacuations and is threatening Lake Michigan. Residents living close to the oil spill have been told to stop using well water for drinking and cooking.
The 30-inch underground pipeline ruptured sometime between Sunday evening and early Monday morning. It was discovered on Monday morning on a creek near the company’s pump station in Marshall, Mich. According to The Wall Street Journal, the pipeline is owned by the Canadian company Enbridge Inc., and is used to move light synthetic, heavy and medium crude oil northeast about 1,900 miles between Canadian and the US.
According to the Journal, the pipeline has been capped, but 20 miles of the Kalamazoo River have been fouled, and the oil spill is heading towards Lake Michigan.
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