Published: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Pipeline warning sign in Charlotte, N.C., suburb. Photo credit: Mike Soraghan/E&E News
A sign in a new subdivision near Charlotte, N.C., warns residents about digging too close to the Colonial pipeline, which transports gasoline and other fuels from the Gulf Coast to New Jersey. Mike Soraghan/E&E News
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. Shannon Miller Ward would like to know how someone loses enough gasoline to fill nearly two Olympic swimming pools without even missing it.
Last summer, a crack in the Colonial pipeline, the country s biggest fuel pipeline, leaked at least 1.2 million gallons of gasoline into a small nature preserve here on the edge of the Charlotte suburbs.
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Massive gasoline spill near Huntersville almost 18 times greater than first reported A crack in the wall of a pipeline caused nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline to spill in Mecklenburg Countyâs Oehler Nature Preserve near Huntersvilleâs town limits in August. (Source: Mecklenburg County) By JOE MARUSAK | The Charlotte Observer | January 21, 2021 at 5:44 PM EST - Updated January 21 at 5:44 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (The Charlotte Observer) - A crack in the wall of a pipeline caused nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline to spill in Mecklenburg Countyâs Oehler Nature Preserve near Huntersvilleâs town limits in August, Colonial Pipeline Co. said in a report filed to the state on Wednesday.
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Map shows the locations of wells around Colonial Pipeline s Huntersville spill. Orange dots are the 50 wells where gasoline has been recovered. The green and pink dots are monitoring wells.
The estimated size of the largest gasoline pipeline spill in North Carolina history keeps growing. Colonial Pipeline now estimates that nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline spilled when a pipeline ruptured in a Huntersville nature preserve last August.
That s more than double the previous estimate of 492,339 gallons as of Dec. 31, and far above the initial estimate of just 63,000 gallons last year. Colonial warned the number could go higher, as workers are still recovering 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of gasoline a day.