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US Forest Service awaits testing from U.P. oil spill site

DETROIT, MI (AP)--   U.S. Forest Service officials are awaiting results from groundwater monitoring wells to help determine environmental damage caused by an oil spill in the Upper Peninsula in 1980, which they say they were unaware of until 2012.

The Detroit Free Press reports the Forest Service says it doesn't have enough information to evaluate the extent of the spill by Enbridge in the Hiawatha National Forest and its effects even though groundwater tests so far have not detected contamination.

The Forest Service says it will take further action as more information becomes available.
Enbridge says it has cleaned up all but one of the five barrels of oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Hiawatha National Forest around 1980.

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