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