BOZEMAN, Mont. - Water samples in Glendive detected cancer-causing benzene in the drinking water. The spill happened just nine miles upriver from Glendive. Now officials in North Dakota are sampling drinking water in Williston and possibly other places to see if contaminates spread across the state line.
The pipeline breach is about 50 miles away from the North Dakota border.
A Bozeman bottling company has helped the families in Glendive by providing them with drinking water. Workers have recovered only 10,000 gallons of oil from the 50,000 that spilled into Yellowstone River, near Glendive, but the oil has already contaminated the drinking water supply.
"They can't drink the water that's coming out of the city," said Lehrkind President Carl Lehrkind IV.
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Poster Comment:
No wonder communities in the path of the Keystone pipeline are worried about their drinking water.
