A jet fuel leak from an Energy Transfer pipeline in Upper Makefield, Pennsylvania, has contaminated multiple private water wells, prompting public outcry and government action. While the pipeline operator, Sunoco, has reduced flow and initiated repairs, residents and officials are demanding a complete shutdown until the cause of the leak is identified and addressed. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has opened an investigation and ordered Sunoco to implement corrective actions to mitigate the risk of future leaks.
The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said the line poses, a “risk to public safety, property, or the environment.”
When Sunoco detected the leak, the company told the federal government that 156 barrels of jet fuel had been released through a “slow drip” in the Mt. Eyre neighborhood of Upper Makefield, Bucks County. The Spencer Road home is about 2,000 feet from the Delaware River, just south of Washington Crossing.
The sleeve identified as causing the leak in January had been installed in 1995 to reinforce a dent in the ¼-inch thick pipe. After locating the leak, Sunoco shut part of the line by closing a valve at a pump station. The company cut out the sleeve and had sent it for a metallurgical analysis by a third party.Before the leak in Upper Makefield, PHMSA said there had been two other failures on the Twin Oaks Pipeline since 1986.
PIPELINE LEAK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION JET FUEL SUNOCO PHMSA
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