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Originally Posted by GameTheory
To be fair, they do have leaks all the time. Not daily, but weekly is about right. A spill with 10s of thousands of gallons happens about every month in the U.S., very often into a river. At least 2 already this year, and there were at least 2 in December. The pipelines simply are not well-maintained (they wait until they break, it seems), and so it is getting worse as they age.
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most are very old and should be replaced. and they don't have leak detection. new pipelines are vastly superior in materials and leak detection. There was a leak of significance in Billings MT a few years ago. It leaked into the yellowstone river. This is where our drinking water comes from. Billings is about 250 miles away. Even in a river system it didn't make it 150 miles as far as being able to detect it. And it was under the ice. Within a month there was no trace that it ever happened. spills into water appear to be the best place for it. easier to clean up and it is cleansed much faster. The gulf is a classic example. I don't know if you could find any indication right now that the spill occurred down there.
