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A BP refinery spilled an unknown amount of oil into Lake Michigan on Monday.

 that the leak has been stopped and it is contained. The station reports:


In a statement, BP said it could not estimate the amount of oil spilled, but the cleanup effort continued on Wednesday.

"Lines of boom have been deployed to contain the oil and wind has blown oil toward the shore, where crews are vacuuming it out of the water and cleaning the limited quantities that have reached land between the refinery's wastewater treatment plant and a nearby steel mill," BP said.


Quoting the Environmental Protection Agency, 

 there have been no negative effects on the drinking water. Lake Michigan is "the source of drinking water for 7 million people in Chicago and the suburbs."  Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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Sources helping with the cleanup estimate about a dozen barrels of crude spilled into the lake, with some containing what's considered sweet crude oil and some containing oil from Canada's tar sands region.

BP: Oil spill in Lake Michigan has been contained

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