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- Officials say residents can drink water but must run taps for 15 to 20 minutes
One week after a pipeline spilled nearly 40,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River and contaminated a Montana city’s water supply, clean-up crews have made little progress in their efforts to remove the oil from the partially frozen river.
The site of the pipeline break, six miles upstream from the high-plains city of Glendive, Montana, is almost entirely capped in ice, complicating efforts to retrieve the oil and slowing the response process. The cause of the spill remains under investigation.
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