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.