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Oil slick from break in pipeline

2008-568
Accession Number
2008-568
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350475864
Related Collection
Davies, Ralph K. Papers
Keywords
Floods
Rivers
Oil industries
Pipelines
HST Keywords
Arkansas
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Description
Oil slick caused by crude oil trapped between emergency gate valves, shut when flood damage occurred in "Big Inch" river crossing, seeped to the surface along bank of Arkansas River to mark the point of break in 24 inch War Emergency Pipeline. Raging water gouged back hundred of feet of river bank and caused the "Big Inch" to break far north of the river channel.
Date(s)
ca.
1942