MARSHALL (WKZO) - Today could be a critical one in the effort to contain the oil spill in Calhoun County. The EPA says that Enbridge has been low-balling the numbers. They estimate over a million gallons of crude oil has leaked and it’s been moving down the Kalamazoo River at about 8 miles a day. It should arrive at Morrow Pond today, unless the 17 containment areas now in place can manage to stop it long enough for vacuum trucks to suck it up.
The EPA says Enbridge also said there was a lot more booming material in use than there actually was, but a lot more has been installed since.
The Estimate of oil that gushed from that 30 inch high pressure line near Marshall has been rising in the last 24 hours. The Pipeline firm tweaked it up to 877-thousand gallons yesterday morning, about 37 thousand more than initially reported. By dinnertime, the EPA was saying that figure was 25% short, that the actual number of gallons was well over a million.
