Spilled oil fills a ravine, Thursday, June 23, 2016, in Ventura, Calif. Thousands of gallons of crude oil spilled Thursday from a pipeline and flowed down a ravine in Southern California but did not reach the ocean, officials said.
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According to FOX40’s Los Angeles sister station KTLA, the leak was initially reported from an inland platform about 5:30 a.m. near Hall Canyon Road and Sunset Drive, about 1-mile inland of San Buenaventura State Beach, according to the Ventura County Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Firefighters in Ventura County, California – just north of Los Angeles – are responding to a roughly 29,000 gallon pipeline leak, the Los Angeles Times reported this morning.
‘We were able to do a damming and diking operation with our agencies working together, and stopping the flow of oil from making it even through the city, much less down to the ocean, ‘ Ventura City Fire Department chief David Endaya said, according to KTLA. About 21,000 gallons of oil flowed into a culvert and then into a ditch that drains into the ocean.
“It seems like they stopped it”, said Allen, who is with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which has jurisdiction over the pipeline.
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Klinger said said the leak occurred in the vicinity of a valve.
Crimson Pipeline said the remotely monitored line was emptied on Wednesday to replace valves.
The operating line has been shut down.
Crimson Pipeline is responsible for cleaning up the Ventura spill, and the company has deployed contractors to lay down large, absorbent brooms in the gorge to mop up the oil.
For a century or more, our county has pumped oil out of the ground and sent it through pipelines.
An analysis of federal pipeline data commissioned by the Center showed there have been almost 8,000 serious pipeline breaks nationwide since 1986, causing more than 2,300 injuries and almost $7 billion in property damage.
“It didn’t make it into the ocean”, said Ventura County fire Capt. Scott Quirarte.
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Initial projections that up to 210,000 gallons may have spilled were later reduced.
