WASHINGTON COUNTY, Kan. — Federal and state environmental officials worked over the weekend to mitigate the fallout from last Wednesday's Keystone Pipeline rupture that leaked about 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a Kansas creek.
Officials hadn't yet determined the cause of the incident, TC Energy, the Canadian pipeline operator, said on Sunday.
Third-party environmental specialists were among the hundreds of people who responded to clean up the mess, the company said in its Sunday update. A trip alarm was received six minutes later, the order said. The pipeline was shut down and its isolation valves were closed at 9:08 p.m., according to officials."Continuous air quality monitoring has been deployed and, at this time, there is no indication of adverse health or public concerns," the company said on Sunday.
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