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Updated: Friday, June 14 2013, 08:41 AM CDT
A Texas based company has been approved by the Alabama Public Service Commission to build an oil pipeline through Mobile County to the Chevron refinery in Mississippi.
The route will cross Hamilton Creek, Snow Road and Howells Ferry road.
Representatives with the Mobile area water and sewer system say the pipeline would go through a portion of their watershed which drains to Big Creek lake, Mobile's main water supply.
With pipeline ruptures in Mayflower, Arkansas and Kalamazoo Michigan, they say the route is too close for comfort.
"That's where we get our water that we serve to all of the 90,000 customers that we serve."
"Everybody in Mobile wouldn't have no drinking water if this thing were to bust."
Water company officials asked the plains south corp to re-route the pipeline away from mobile's main water supply.
The company has hired a local engineering firm to assess the risk involved in having the pipeline so close.
Updated: Friday, June 14 2013, 08:41 AM CDT
A Texas based company has been approved by the Alabama Public Service Commission to build an oil pipeline through Mobile County to the Chevron refinery in Mississippi.
The route will cross Hamilton Creek, Snow Road and Howells Ferry road.
Representatives with the Mobile area water and sewer system say the pipeline would go through a portion of their watershed which drains to Big Creek lake, Mobile's main water supply.
With pipeline ruptures in Mayflower, Arkansas and Kalamazoo Michigan, they say the route is too close for comfort.
"That's where we get our water that we serve to all of the 90,000 customers that we serve."
"Everybody in Mobile wouldn't have no drinking water if this thing were to bust."
Water company officials asked the plains south corp to re-route the pipeline away from mobile's main water supply.
The company has hired a local engineering firm to assess the risk involved in having the pipeline so close.