Mayflower Oil Spill 2013 (Mayflower, Arkansas)

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This area was affected by the Mayflower Oil Spill of 2013.
Evidence of the clean-up is evident in this satellite photo as ground disturbance.
An Exxon-Mobil pipeline carrying Canadian Wabasca heavy crude from the Athabasca oil sands ruptured here on March 29, 2013.
Twenty-two homes were evacuated. The US-EPA classified the leak as a major spill. A reported 5,000−7,000 barrels of crude were spilled. By by March 31, about 12,000 barrels (1,900 m3) of oil mixed with water had been recovered
Exxon's Pegasus pipeline carries 95,000 barrels per day from Patoka, Illinois to Nederland, Texas, about 850 miles.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Mayflower_oil_spill
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Coordinates:   34°57'57"N   92°25'1"W
This article was last modified 8 years ago