NC Colonial Pipeline Spill Now Estimated At 2 Million Gallons—Largest In U.S. History
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Two million. That's how many gallons of gasoline Colonial Pipeline Company now estimates spilled from a crack in their pipeline running beneath the Oheler Nature Preserve outside Huntersville, NC in August of 2020. The updated estimate, given as part of Colonial's settlement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, makes the Huntersville spill the largest inland pipeline spill in US history. The previous record was 1.68M gallons in Minnesota in 1991.
NC Colonial Pipeline Spill Now Estimated At 2 Million Gallons—Largest In U.S. History
NC Colonial Pipeline Spill Now Estimated At 2…
NC Colonial Pipeline Spill Now Estimated At 2 Million Gallons—Largest In U.S. History
Two million. That's how many gallons of gasoline Colonial Pipeline Company now estimates spilled from a crack in their pipeline running beneath the Oheler Nature Preserve outside Huntersville, NC in August of 2020. The updated estimate, given as part of Colonial's settlement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, makes the Huntersville spill the largest inland pipeline spill in US history. The previous record was 1.68M gallons in Minnesota in 1991.