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Posted Thu Jun 4 2015: from LA Times:
Ruptured pipeline was corroded, federal regulators say http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1433426380
Corrosion had eaten away nearly half of the metal wall of a pipeline that ruptured and spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil along the Santa Barbara coast last month, federal regulators said Wednesday... The 10.6-mile pipeline had "extensive" external corrosion, and the thickness of the pipe's wall where it broke had degraded to an estimated one-sixteenth of an inch, the pipeline agency said.
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