Oil Shipments to Resume After Ice Melts in Yellowstone

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Wyoming company is preparing to resume oil shipments through a pipeline that broke and spewed 30,000 gallons of crude into Montana's Yellowstone River.

Cleanup work on the spill upstream of Glendive remains on hold due to ice with only about 10 percent of the oil recovered.

Bridger Pipeline LLC spokesman Bill Salvin said the company would begin restarting a 50-mile section of the line south of the spill site on Wednesday. He says workers also are setting up equipment to drill a new passage for the line deeper beneath the river.

The pipeline was installed in 1967 in a shallow trench across the river bottom.

The January spill contaminated the water supply for 6,000 Glendive residents. Filters have since been installed to screen out any petroleum products.