Officials pinpoint spot where pipeline broke, causing huge Kalamazoo River oil spill in Mich.

Pipe break that caused Michigan oil spill is found

MARSHALL, Mich. — Officials say they’ve located the pipeline break that caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil to spew into a major river in southern Michigan.

An official with the Canadian company which owns the pipeline that leaked oil into the Kalamazoo River confirmed the break’s discovery during a news conference Saturday afternoon in Marshall, Mich.

Enbridge Inc. executive vice president Steve Wuori (WUHR’-ee) says “it is highly unlikely there is any other break in the pipe.” Wuori also says no oil was leaking from the exposed pipe.

The company shut down the pipeline Monday and had been looking for the break since.

Enbridge says 820,000 gallons of oil leaked. The Environmental Protection Agency puts the total at more than 1 million gallons.