Last July, a 30-inch pipe transporting crude oil from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario, Can., began leaking near the pump station at Marshall, Mich.An estimated 20,082 barrels (843,444 gallons) of oil leaked from the pipeline; of that, an estimated 8,033 barrels (337,386 gallons) entered Talmadge Creek and Kalamazoo River. Fearing the spill would reach Morrow Lake, an impoundment above a hydroelectric dam on the river, Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P., set up containment booms before the lake and deployed multiple vacuum trucks upstream to collect oil.Officials, realizing the spill’s extent, called Steve Taplin, chief executive officer of Terra Contracting LLC, a
