Oil Spill Contaminates Ground Water in Wisconsin
Crude oil that spilled from a broken pipeline and into a construction pit seeped deep enough to contaminate the water table in a rural area of northern Wisconsin, a state regulator said Friday. No homes were immediately at risk for polluted drinking water, said John Robinson, a regional supervisor for the Department of Natural Resources' spill recovery team. The contamination was discovered Monday, 10 days after oil gushed from the pipeline because of a construction accident. It's not known how much oil got into ground water.
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