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Wabasca Heavy crude flowed down Shade Tree Lane after a section of the Pegasus Pipeline ruptured. The pipeline runs beneath several yards in the Northwoods subdivisio nin Mayflower. Photo credit: Jennifer Whitten

 

Poles indicating a petroleum pipeline are staked in several yards of the Northwoods Subdivision in Mayflower. More than
20 residents were evacuated from their homes after a section of the Pegasus Pipeline ruptured on March 29, spilling more than 12,000 barrels of Wabasca Heavy crude into the residential neighborhood. By Tina Parker

Contract workers clean up the heavy crude that flowed into the marsh of Lake Conway in Mayflower, Ark.
Photo by Tina Parker

Reporters are escorted to the rupture site of the Pegasus Pipeline to watch be exhumed from the earth.
Photo by Tina Parker

ExxonMobil workers help hoist a section of the Pegasus Pipeline out of the ground.
Photo by Tina Parker