SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) — Cleanup efforts are underway after an estimated 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into a Spartanburg creek, prompting environmental concerns and questions about how the incident happened.
Kinder Morgan, the company responsible for the spill, said an alarm system alerted operators to a diesel release from one of its tanks around 10 p.m. on Sunday at its Products (SE) Pipe Line Corporation facility.
The tank was shut down, stopping the leak, but fuel had already leaked into a catch basin and flowed into Four Mile Branch Creek…