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Santa Barbara Oil Pipeline Leak Rekindles Memories of 1969 Disaster
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Santa Barbara Oil Pipeline Leak Rekindles Memories of 1969 Disaster
One Santa Barbara County official said the oil spill reminds us of the
perils this industry has
Nearly 50 years ago, a blowout on an offshore platform spewed more than 3
million gallons of oil
May 20, 2015
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/
la-me-santa-barbara-spill-20150521-story.html
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It was a scene that generations of people on the Santa Barbara coast have
dreaded: Cleanup workers in white protective suits combing tar-splattered
beaches, hoping to contain the damage from a crude oil spill.
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Nearly 50 years ago, a blowout on an offshore oil platform spewed more
than 3 million gallons of oil into the Santa Barbara Channel and
devastated the coastline, killing thousands of seabirds and galvanizing
the U.S. environmental movement.
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The spill that occurred Tuesday when a pipeline ruptured near U.S. 101 was
far smaller up to 105,000 gallons. But the incident gave rise to similar
anger and frustration on the part of residents and environmentalists who
have long feared a repeat of the 1969 disaster along the same sensitive
coastline.
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Santa Barbara County Supervisor Salud Carbajal, standing above a pile of
blackened, oil-covered rocks at Refugio State Beach, said that the spill
"reminds us of the perils this industry has."
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard deployed half a dozen vessels to skim
oil from the water and contain it with booms as crews of cleanup workers
removed tar and oil from sand and rocks on the shoreline and shoveled mud
into clear plastic bags.
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Federal authorities said the 24-inch pipeline leaked for several hours
after it ruptured near Refugio State Beach. Crews stopped the leak by 3
p.m., Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrea Anderson said.
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The oil flowed down a culvert and into the ocean, and by Wednesday morning
had formed two slicks totaling a combined nine miles in length.
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Authorities estimated that it could take at least three days to clean up
the spill.
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The rupture occurred on an 11-mile pipe owned by Houston-based Plains All
American Pipeline that carries crude from a storage tank in Las Flores to
a facility in Gaviota. The pipeline is part of a larger oil transport
network that is centered in Kern County and carries oil to refineries
throughout California.
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The pipeline was designed to carry about 150,000 barrels of oil per day,
according to company officials.
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The company said its estimate of 105,000 gallons spilled is a worst-case
scenario based on the line's elevation and flow rate, which averages about
50,400 gallons an hour. Of that, about 21,000 gallons reached the ocean,
but both figures are under investigation, according to a statement from
the company and state and federal officials. Investigators won't find a
cause for the rupture until they excavate the line, which was installed in
1987. An employee noticed problems and shut the line down about 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, the statement said.
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