The pump allowing the oil to flow was shut down after residents informed local police and contacted an emergency hotline regarding the leak.
The rupture took place in the Hall Canyon area in Ventura County. Oil began to spill early in the morning from a line running from Ventura to a refinery in Los Angeles, and flowed into the lengthy Prince Barranca ravine that ends near the Ventura Pier. According to Crimson Pipeline spokeswoman Kendall Klingler, the oil did not reach the coast.
Here's a map of the oil spill in #Ventura. A resident saw the leak around 5:30 am above Foothill Road. pic.twitter.com/1bwqZSKWkg
— Arlene Martinez (@avmartinez) June 23, 2016
"The initial concern was that there was a chance that it could have made its way further," she said. "But the spill was contained very early on and a lot of damage has been mitigated because of that."
Crimson Pipeline operates 661 miles of oil and gas pipelines in the regions around Los Angeles and has had 10 spills since 2006, due to various reasons, including corrosion, poor maintenance and excavation damage.
Those spills, combined, total some 313,000 gallons of crude oil leaked into the local environment, and have caused some $5.9 million in property damage, according to accident reports submitted by the company to federal regulators.
