Refiner Delek Cleaning Up 5,000-Barrel Spill in Arkansas Bayou
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Delek US Holdings Inc., a refiner that owns a plant in El Dorado, Arkansas, are working to clean up a 5,000-barrel oil spill about 20 miles north of the Louisiana border.
The EPA has removed about 4,200 barrels of crude from the March 9 spill that fouled about three miles of Little Cornie Bayou near Magnolia, Arkansas, Jennah Durant, a spokeswoman for EPA Region 6, said in a telephone interview today. Work to clean up the remaining barrels has been stalled by rain and freezing temperatures, according to an EPA incident report yesterday.