There are more than 100 photographs [3]on the website[3] for the EPA On Site Coordinator, from the period March 29-April 6. They show that the oil got into active waterways almost immediately on March 29. And at least some of the oil was also flowing on the ground and into the street, ending up going down a storm drain.
EPA image #78 shows "Sorbent boom in place at discharge point from neighborhood underneath Main Street" -- four days after the spill, on April 2.
EPA image #90 shows "Containment boom installed in Lake Conway" on April 2.
Has tar sands oil reached Lake Conway or not?
ExxonMobil reportedly says it has not.
Grist.org reporter Suzi Parker says that Arkansas Attorney
General McDaniel "reported Friday morning [April 5] that there is oil in
Lake Conway despite ExxonMobil's assurances to the contrary."
The [4]Grist
report[4] adds:
"'Great efforts have
been taken to limit the spread of the oil to only one area of Lake Conway,
which is referred to as the Cove, but the Cove and Lake Conway are
hydrologically connected and are therefore one body of water,' Aaron Sadler,
spokesman for McDaniel, told Grist.
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