“It almost looks like a government vehicle, but it obviously isn’t,” Brent Midling said about his sister’s SUV. “It’s just understated enough that people do a double-take.”
About 39,000 barrels of oil and water — or about 1.6 million gallons — have been removed from the river, up from 400,000 gallons three days ago. More than 700 people are working on the river.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office released aerial photographs that it says shows oil sheen on Morrow Lake. However, the governor’s office did not release any photos of oil sheen on the Kalamazoo River downstream from the dam.
The EPA is now saying that the amount of oil spilled from a section of 30-inch underground pipe near Marshall on Monday is close to 1 million gallons, higher than the company’s (Enbridge Inc.) earlier estimate of 840,000 gallons.
Kalamazoo County officials said they began an emergency response at about 6 p.m. Monday after news spread that a 30-inch oil pipeline in Marshall sprung a leak and released oil into the Talmadge Creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River.
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