1,711 barrels of oil left for cleanup process

  • TC Energy personnel used boats to get onto the water surface so they could use low-pressure water pumps to direct oil toward mechanical recovery operations on Mill Creek. This is an EPA photo from Jan. 10.
    TC Energy personnel used boats to get onto the water surface so they could use low-pressure water pumps to direct oil toward mechanical recovery operations on Mill Creek. This is an EPA photo from Jan. 10.
  • A Dec. 21 photo by the EPA shows on-scene EPA coordinators observing pipeline repair operations from the north bank of Mill Creek, looking south.
    A Dec. 21 photo by the EPA shows on-scene EPA coordinators observing pipeline repair operations from the north bank of Mill Creek, looking south.
The latest cleanup numbers from TC Energy show they have approximately 1,711 barrels of oil left to clean up out of the original 14,000 barrels of oil that leaked from the Keystone Pipeline northeast of Washington during an incident on Dec. 8. The latest report listed on TC Energy’s Milepost 14 Incident website is from Jan. 14, which shows approximately 12,289 barrels of oil recovered as part of…

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