Montana: Tests Show Water Appears Free of Carcinogens

Initial tests of water supplies in Glendive show no sign of a cancer-causing element for the first time since they were contaminated by a crude oil spill over the weekend, a state official said Thursday. Glendive’s water no longer shows elevated levels of benzene, a carcinogenic component of oil, in tests taken from fire hydrants, said Jeni Garcin of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. If a laboratory confirms the results, officials will ask the city’s 6,000 residents to flush their taps by running them for 10 minutes. After that, the water would be drinkable. Residents have been told not to drink or cook with city water since Monday night, two days after a 40,000-gallon oil spill from a pipeline about six miles upstream along the Yellowstone River. The pipeline owner, Bridger Pipeline, has been trucking in bottled water. Most of the oil remains trapped beneath the river’s frozen surface.

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