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Environment & Science
5:39 pm
Fri June 1, 2012

Park reopens nearly two years after oil spill

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Credit (Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
Historic Bridge Park, just south of Battle Creek. The Kalamazoo River winds past the park. The river remains off limits due to contamination from the 2010 Enbridge oil spill
Credit (Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
This sign warns people visiting Historic Bridge Park not to enter the river. This portion of the Kalamazoo River remains contaminated from the 2010 Enbridge oil spill.
Credit (Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
A new sign is among the improvement Enbridge Energy has made to Historic Bridge Park, after using the park for nearly two years as a staging area for the ongoing cleanup of the 2010 oil spill in the Kalamazoo River.
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Life is slowly returning to normal along the Kalamazoo River nearly two years after a broken pipeline dumped more than 800 thousand gallons of crude oil into the river.

Today,  a Calhoun County park that has been closed since the oil spill officially reopened to the public.

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