KALAMAZOO, MI – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering Enbridge Inc. to do additional dredging in the Kalamazoo River to clean up oil from a massive 2010 spill.

The order, which came down Thurday, requires Enbridge to do the dredging in sections of the river above Ceresco Dam near Battle Creek and in Morrow Lake in Comstock Township.

The order comes more than two years after a 30-inch pipeline owned by Enbridge ruptured near Marshall and then traveled about 35 miles downstream before being contained.

The EPA has said previously that work crews removed 1.1 million gallons of oil and 200,000 cubic yards of oil-contaminated sediment and debris from the river following the July 26, 2010, spill.

Despite those efforts, EPA officials said Thursday that the agency “has repeatedly documented the presence of recoverable submerged oil in the sections of the river identified in the order and has determined that submerged oil in these areas can be recovered by dredging,” according to an EPA news release.

“The dredging activity required by EPA’s order will prevent submerged oil from migrating to downstream areas where it will be more difficult or impossible to recover,” EPA officials said.

EPA officials said Enbridge has five days to respond to the order and 15 days to provide the EPA with a work plan for the dredging. In addition to the dredging, the order also requires Enbridge to “maintain sediment traps throughout the river to capture oil outside the dredge areas,” according to the news release.

“I am glad EPA is ordering Enbridge to do additional dredging to remove the submerged oil that they left in the Kalamazoo River," U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said in a statement issued Thursday. "It has been nearly three years since about a million gallons were released into the river, and EPA should continue to press Enbridge to promptly finish the remainder of the cleanup, including removal of all contaminated sediments. Enbridge needs to take full responsibility for ensuring that public health is protected and the disastrous mess they created is fully cleaned up.”

The dredging is expected to begin this spring and isn't expected to lead to any closures of the river, officials said.

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