Although local officials rapid response to the pipeline failure in Mayflower, Arkansas may have prevented a much larger disaster, it appears that the Canadian crude did reach Lake Conway.

These are screen caps of a video taken by video journalist Adam Randall as the entire area was surveyed from a helicopter. You can see Randall's raw video here.

The above screen grab captures the view looking back toward I-40 and the subdivision where the spill originated. The oil flowed through the subdivision storm sewer and under I-40 into a wooded cove of Lake Conway.

The below screen grab shows the boom attempting to stop the oil before it flows through the culvert and under the road into the main body of the 6,700 acre Lake Conway.



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In case you missed it, Chris Hayes lead with this story in his new MSNBC time slot.

