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Contaminants From Oil Spill Site Bound For Bennington

KIOS | By 24/7 News Source

Published February 23, 2023 at 11:29 AM CST

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In this photo taken by a drone, cleanup continues on Dec. 9 in the area where the ruptured Keystone pipeline dumped oil into a creek in Washington County, Kan.

Soil impacted by a major oil spill is headed to Nebraska. According to the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy, eight-thousand cubic yards of crude oil-impacted soil from Kansas is being taken to the Pheasant Point Landfill near Bennington. One-hundred cubic yards of crude-impacted oily solids will also be transported to the landfill. The soil and solids were impacted when 13-thousand barrels of oil spilled from the Keystone pipeline in Kansas in December.