LEAK A MONTH OLD CREW DIKES SLIDE-CAUSED OIL SPILL.Byline: Amy Raisin Darvish Staff Writer NEWHALL - City workers discovered an oil spill oil spill: see water pollution. Tuesday in a residential neighborhood and traced it to a cracked hillside pipeline that may have been slowly leaking the crude for as long as a month, authorities said. Emergency crews traced the leak to a dormant underground pipeline near Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and Dockweiler Drive, which may have broken under the stress of a storm-related landslide, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Capt. Gary Dellamalva of Fire Station 73 in Newhall. ``I'm guessing it's been slowly leaking for a month or so, about one gallon every 15 minutes now,'' Dellamalva said. ``It's been coming down the hillside and into the storm drain, but we've diked it and stopped the flow.'' Initial reports estimated 1,000 gallons of oil had seeped from the pipeline, but Dellamalva lowered that to about 200 gallons after further inspection. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and and the state Department of Fish and Game were summoned to the scene. A public works crew from the city of Santa Clarita discovered a pool of thick crude oil on a residential street Tuesday afternoon, Dellamalva said. The slow leak of oil made its way down a hillside just east of Sierra Highway, into the storm drain and under a series of homes before exiting out the end of the storm drain near Oakriver Lane. The exit point is above the Polynesian Mobile Home Park off San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the in Newhall, where residents were forced to evacuate earlier this year after heavy rains sent a torrent of mud into the complex. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) While keeping a crude oil spill from leaking farther, crews follow it back to its origin: a dormant underground pipeline near Sierra Highway and Dockweiler Drive, which may have broken in a landslide. (2 -- color) Work crews use sandbags sandbags small sacks containing sand used to support an anesthetized animal in dorsal recumbency and prevent it from rolling sideways during anesthesia or surgery. to make a dike Dike, in Greek religion and mythology Dike: see Horae. dike, in technology dike, in technology: see levee. dike Bank, usually of earth, constructed to control or confine water. to hold back leaking crude oil, which has been dripping out of a pipeline at the rate of about one gallon every 15 minutes. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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