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4B – Daily News – Monday, June 14, 2010 Official: Oil spill hasn’t reached Great Salt Lake SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Emergency workers believe they have stopped a 21,000- gallon oil leak from reaching the environmentally sensitive Great Salt Lake, one of the West’s most important inland water bodies for migratory birds that use it as a place to rest, eat and breed. But the spill has taken a toll on wildlife at area creeks and ponds, coating about 300 birds with oil and possibly threaten- ing an endangered fish. The leak began Friday night when an underground Chevron Corp. pipeline in the mountains near the University of Utah broke. The breach sent oil into a creek that flows through neighborhoods, into a popular Salt Lake City park, and ulti- mately into the Jordan River, which flows into the Great Salt Lake. The 10-inch pipeline was shut off Saturday morning, when workers at a nearby Vet- erans Administration building smelled oil and called the Salt Lake City fire department, which notified Chevron. The pipe carries crude oil from western Colorado to a refinery near the Salt Lake City Interna- tional Airport. Jason Olsen, spokesman for the Salt Lake City Joint Infor- mation Center, said Sunday emergency workers believe they have contained the spill to the Jordan River. But the spill still took its toll on birds at Red Butte Creek and at a large pond at Liberty Park, where visitors often feed birds from the shore and on rented paddle boats. About 300 birds were coated in oil and cleaned at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. Fewer than 10 have died, said Salt Lake City spokeswoman Lisa Harrison-Smith. Most of the birds were Canada geese, although some ducks were also covered. Harrison-Smith said the oil also flowed through several other riparian areas, which could threaten a rare Utah fish called a June sucker. It’s been listed as an endangered species since 1986. Most of Liberty Park reopened Sunday. The pond remained closed, and Olsen urged those who live near affected waterways to stay away from them. ‘‘Wherever the oil is, the smell is still fairly strong,’’ Olsen said. The Salt Lake City Police Department told residents whose yards were polluted by the spill not to clean them up, but to file a claim with Chevron first. Chevron has said it is tak- ing full responsibility for the spill and will pay for its cleanup. Harrison-Smith said Chevron had investigators at the scene of the leak Sunday and that the Environmental Protection Agency had brought in a U.S. Coast Guard water recovery expert to assist with cleanup efforts. She said city officials were hoping to receive a report on the spill from Chevron some- time Sunday evening. U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D- Utah, said he spoke by tele- Investigators recover plane wreckage from school Federal investigators on Sunday recovered the wreckage of a small plane that nosedived into an eastern Arizona high school and exploded, killing all four people on board. Firefighters cleared the way for investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board by putting out hot spots that remained after the single- engine Piper crashed Fri- day afternoon into the empty two-story school building in the small town of Eagar. Investigators were able to find all major structural components of the plane, NTSB investigator Joshua Cawthra said. ‘‘The airplane was severely fragmented and there was definitely a lot of fire damage,’’ he said. The wreckage was being transported to a secure facility in Phoenix, where investigators would continue to comb over the charred pieces, looking for any clues to what may have caused the crash. ‘‘We’ve got a lot left to do,’’ Cawthra said. ‘‘We’ll be looking at everything — man, machine and environment.’’ Investigators will try to determine if there were any mechanical anom- alies with the aircraft as well as examine the flight plan, the pilot’s history, the weather conditions at the time of the crash and if any safety related issues could have contributed. The plane had just taken off from the nearby Springerville airport when the crash happened. It was headed to the Grand Canyon. Earlier in the day, the plane had stopped in Wichita Falls, Texas, but Cawthra was unsure of its stops before that. The bodies of the four people on board were also recovered and sent to the medical investigator. Apache County sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Guinn said earlier in the day that authorities had not been able to determine even the gender or age of the four, but he was hopeful their identities could be con- firmed by late Sunday. Authorities declined to release the name of the plane’s registered owner. The plane had circled above Eagar two or three times before it suddenly crashed into the main building at Round Valley High School just before 2 p.m. Friday. There is no evidence of a distress call, Cawthra said. Hours after the crash, flames continued to erupt above the building. Fire crews from nearly a dozen small towns in the region raced to battle the flames. phone Sunday with Becky Roberts, president of the com- pany’s Chevron Pipe Line Co. unit. Matheson said Roberts told him that until Chevron crews dig up the broken section of pipe, the company can’t be sure what caused the leak. Matheson is urging full dis- closure on the leak’s cause, and said his office will follow up to make sure Chevron follows EPA regulations. ‘‘I would say they are responding very aggressively to it. I think they know there is a heightened concern among people in this country about oil spills,’’ Matheson said. ‘‘I think they understand it’s in their best interest to do everything they can to fix this as soon as possible.’’ Trapped man who lost arm out of intensive care HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The mother of a man who cut off most of his arm after it was caught in a furnace for three days says he is out of intensive care. Jonathan Metz underwent surgery at St. Francis Hospital to close a wound where he tried to cut off his arm after getting caught in the furnace. He succeeded in cutting off most of his arm, and paramedics completed the amputation. He is expected to be fitted for a prosthetic arm. 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