Three Years Later: EPA Continues to Clean Up Kalamazoo Oil Spill

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Three years ago today, EPA responded to one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history. When we arrived on scene, oil from a ruptured pipeline was pouring into the Kalamazoo River – a Great Lakes tributary.

Site of the 2010 Enbridge oil pipeline spill

At the time of the spill, it was raining hard and oil was carried quickly downstream in the fast-moving river – flowing over dams and flooding riverbanks.

Oil completely covered the surface of the river

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