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EPA: More Work Needed to Clean up Enbridge Oil Spill in Kalamazoo River

Release Date: 10/03/2012
Contact Information: Phillippa Cannon 312-353-6218, Francisco Arcaute 312-886-7613, 312-898-2042 Cell, arcaute.francisco@epa.gov

For Immediate Release No. 12-OPA086

Enbridge has 10 days to request a conference with EPA to discuss the additional work specified in the proposed order and 30 days to submit written comments. EPA’s prior orders directing Enbridge to complete other cleanup and restoration work in the Kalamazoo River system remain in effect.

On July 26, 2010, Enbridge reported that a 30-inch pipeline ruptured near Marshall, Michigan. Heavy rains caused the river to overtop existing dams and carried oil 30 miles downstream before the spill was contained. So far, oil spill response workers have collected over 1.1 million gallons of oil and almost 200,000 cubic yards of oil-contaminated sediment and debris from the Kalamazoo River system.

For more information, go to www.epa.gov/enbridgespill.