Cancer-causing chemical benzene was detected in Glendive public water supply, six miles downstream from spill near the North Dakota state line
Clean-up crews were working against potentially dangerous winter conditions to clean up the estimated 40,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled into the Yellowstone river last weekend, as residents of a high-plains town a few miles downstream from the broken pipeline queue for clean water.
The agricultural community of Glendive, Montana, was set on edge after the cancer-causing chemical benzene was detected in the public water supply, just six miles from the spill, near the North Dakota state line.
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