More than 1,000 gallons of gasoline leaked from a BP station in Clinton, Michigan

[Ian David]

GLIDE Number: ED-20070731-12632-USA
Date / time: 31/07/2007 03:27:28
Event: Enviroment Pollution
Area: North-America
Country: USA
State/County: State of Michigan
City: Clinton
Number of Deads: None or unknow
Number of Injured: None or unknow
Damage level: Minor

Description:

More than 1,000 gallons of gasoline leaked from a BP station over the weekend in the village of Clinton, a town of 2,400 residents in Lenawee County near the Ohio border. It appears a faulty valve on a pump caused the leak, which became obvious when gasoline bubbled from the ground, said Clinton Public Works Superintendent George Service. Some of the gasoline ran into a storm sewer. “They had replaced a pump and they must have had a leak,” Service said. The fire department was able to prevent it from spreading any further and remediation efforts have begun, said Robert McCann, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. No one was injured and no evacuations were necessary, he said. The station remains open until the excavating begins, Service said.

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