In Alabama, the clean-up near the Cahaba River south of Birmingham continues, following the pipeline leak that lead to Atlanta’s gas shortage.
The effects on the environmentally-sensitive area could have been worse, said David Butler, riverkeeper of the Cahaba Riverkeeper organization. Most of the hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline went into a man-made retention pond near a strip mine, he said, and none has been detected in the river itself.
“It’s hard to imagine a set of circumstances that would be more fortunate,” he said. “My initial reaction was complete panic.”
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