The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which Donald Trump pushed
through upon taking the presidency, leaked about 200 miles south of
where the well-reported Standing Rock protests were located.
A tank inside a pump station in the small
rural town of Tulare, South Dakota, leaked about 84 gallons. The station
caught it all inside a containment area made of gravel and a synthetic
liner.
"They have the main line and the main pump, but they also have a surge tank, which they have pump a little off the main line into," said Brian Walsh, an environmental scientist with the Ground Water Quality Program of the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. "And that's where the leak occurred — at the surge pump."
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