BP says both pipes remain closed at site of fuel leak near Snohomish

EVERETT — Officials from the Department of Ecology and BP were working Wednesday to contain and assess a rupture from its Olympic Pipeline that spilled an undisclosed amount of jet fuel into a drainage ditch near Lowell-Snohomish River Road in Snohomish.

Olympic Pipeline is a 400-mile system of pipes that pumps jet fuel, diesel and gasoline from four refineries along Puget Sound to the Seattle area, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and further south to Vancouver and Portland.

The leak happened sometime last week by a blueberry farm, but the oil giant was alerted to the leak on Nov. 11, according to a press release Tuesday.

The cause of the leak is not known as of Wednesday, Washington Department of Ecology spokesperson Jasmin Adams said in an email on Wednesday.

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