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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

"Official: Oil spill hasn't reached Great Salt Lake"

(LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR) The Lincoln Journal Star reports, "Emergency workers believe they have stopped a 21,000 gallon oil leak from reaching the environmentally sensitive Great Salt Lake, one of the West's most important inland water bodies for migratory birds that use it as a place to rest, eat and breed.

An underground pipeline in the mountains near the University of Utah broke Friday night, sending oil into a creek that flows through neighborhoods, into a popular Salt Lake City park and ultimately the Jordan River. The pipeline wasn't shut off until Saturday morning."

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