SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - It wasn't a big spill, but about two barrels of oil leaked from a Dakota Access Pipeline pump station early last month in Spink County, South Dakota.
An Energy Transfer Partners official says the spill happened while pipeline was being commissioned. The official says the spill was contained and had no larger environmental impact.
Energy Transfer reported the spill, recovered the oil and returned it to the pipeline. Contaminated soils and rock were cleaned and disposed.
The leak was 100 miles east of the Missouri River. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is challenging the pipeline as a potential contaminator for their water supply in North Dakota along the Missouri River.
The nearly $4 billion pipeline will carry crude oil almost 1,200 miles from western North Dakota to Illinois. From there it will connect to another line carrying oil from the Bakken in North Dakota to Gulf Coast refineries
