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Leaking Utah pipeline back in service
SALT LAKE CITY, (UPI) -- Chevron says a pipeline that burst last week in Salt Lake City, polluting a local river, has been pressure tested and is back in service.
The company said it tested a 14-mile section of the pipeline north of the city Sunday with water pumped into it at five times normal operating pressure, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday.
Chevron received permission to put the pipeline back in service from the U.S. Transportation Department's pipeline safety office, the newspaper said.
"We're pretty confident the pipeline is in good shape," Chevron spokesman Dan Johnson said.
A leak in the pipeline -- which transports about 14,000 to 15,000 barrels of oil a day from the Rangely Oil Field in Colorado to Chevron's Salt Lake City refinery -- was discovered June 12.
The leak poured an estimated 33,000 gallons of oil into Red Butte Creek and into Liberty Park pond and the Jordan River, the Tribune said.
The cleanup team working the spill said only around 4,200 gallons remained in the contaminated waterways.
SALT LAKE CITY, (UPI) -- Chevron says a pipeline that burst last week in Salt Lake City, polluting a local river, has been pressure tested and is back in service.
The company said it tested a 14-mile section of the pipeline north of the city Sunday with water pumped into it at five times normal operating pressure, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday.
Chevron received permission to put the pipeline back in service from the U.S. Transportation Department's pipeline safety office, the newspaper said.
"We're pretty confident the pipeline is in good shape," Chevron spokesman Dan Johnson said.
A leak in the pipeline -- which transports about 14,000 to 15,000 barrels of oil a day from the Rangely Oil Field in Colorado to Chevron's Salt Lake City refinery -- was discovered June 12.
The leak poured an estimated 33,000 gallons of oil into Red Butte Creek and into Liberty Park pond and the Jordan River, the Tribune said.
The cleanup team working the spill said only around 4,200 gallons remained in the contaminated waterways.
