Government officials and others came together today in Little Rock to discuss the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, currently shut down on account of the Mayflower rupture, which runs through 13 miles of the Lake Maumelle watershed. It runs for 15.5 miles between shutoff valves through the land from which Central Arkansas gets virtually all its water supply.

Nobody from ExxonMobil attended, however.

A break like that which occurred in Mayflower, with spillage of some 5,000 barrels of oil, would produce exponential damage to the watershed.