KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – 10 years ago Saturday, Enbridge pipeline 6B broke open, resulting in the spilling of over 800,000 gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, saturating around 40 miles of the watershed.
The company determined that an opening of about six feet in the pipeline had caused the spill, which covered almost everything from the spill location near Marshall to the Morrow Dam in Comstock.
The spill is considered to be one of the worst in U.S. history, and cost Enbridge over a billion dollars in cleanup costs, and another 75 million dollars in a settlement with the state.
