The burst pipeline runs through a golf course, a berry farm, a daycare center, rivers. People along the route wonder, What if it had happened to us?
By Sam Eifling, David Koon and Elizabeth McGowan
Sep 3, 2013
Megan Brown, an environmental geology student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has mapped the Pegasus pipeline’s path through her hometown of Conway. Credit: Brian Chilson, Arkansas Times
This is Part 1 of a series looking at the people and scenery along the route of ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline, which spilled an estimated 210,000 gallons of heavy Canadian crude oil into the town of Mayflower, Ark. Read Part 2.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The oil that erupted in the town of Mayflower back in March began its trip in an Illinois hamlet named Patoka, 90 minutes east of St. Louis. It shot down ExxonMobil’s 20-inch Pegasus pipeline, under farms and forests, over the Mississippi River via a state highway bridge, through the Missouri Ozarks, across the Arkansas state line and, a few miles later, near the workplace of one Glenda Jones, whom you can find on a summer Saturday at her bar job, watching the Cardinals thump the Cubs. For the rest of this story please click the link: http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130903/path-exxons-pegasus-pipeline-across-arkansas-people-water-farms-part-1