Crews are beginning to clean up a massive oil spill that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a Kern County canyon, state authorities said.
In this May 10 photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, oil flows at a Chevron oil field in Kern County, Calif.
She and California officials said the spill is not near any waterway and has not significantly affected wildlife. The state’s worst spill was the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill that leaked at least 80,000 barrels of crude oil into the Santa Barbara Channel. Each barrel is 42 gallons, making the spill more than 3 million gallons.
Chevron hires contractors to clean up the spill and bears the expense of the cleanup, he said, though the state office will oversee the process. The investigation into what caused the seep and the cleanup is somewhat delayed, he said, while officials make sure there are no dangerous fumes from the oil or sinkholes that could trap workers or heavy equipment.
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