“We’re beginning to get a better sense of the clean up efforts that will need to be undertaken in the longer-term,” said Kellen Ashford, spokesperson for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The oil spill has not threatened the local water supply or forced local residents to evacuate, Washington County Emergency Management Coordinator Randy Hubbard told Reuters. Workers quickly set up a containment area to restrict oil that had spilled into a creek from flowing downstream.Livestock producers in the area have been notified and have taken their own corrective measure to protect their animals, he added.The EPA is the main federal agency that oversees inland oil spills.
“The county of Washington County’s road crew was hauling dirt to make a dam on Mill Creek,” Bauer said.Click to share quote on Twitter: "It was amazing to me to see how much mobilization was able to happen that fast." “There’s tens of thousands of miles of pipeline under Kansas, running in almost every direction, carrying everything from processed fuels to crude oil to natural gas. And so pipeline ruptures happen from time to time,” Bauer said.Story continues below advertisement
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