This summer on July 26, 2010. A pipeline spilled into the Kalamazoo River spilling out more and then 840,000 gallons of oil. The 30-inch pipeline carries about 8 million gallons of oil per day to Griffith, Indiana, to Sarnia, Ontario according to Enbridge.

After the oil leak the pipeline pumps were shut down from preventing the pipeline to spill even more oil in to the kalamazoo river!

Authorities are monitoring the Ceresco Dam said Durk Dunham, the county's emergency management director. The timing of the spill is bad because of all
the bad storms this season and the storms have widened the river and caused it to carry the oil more quickly, said Calhoun County Sheriff Al Byam.

Safety in Emmett township has issued a warning this evening to tell people not to fish or swim in the river.The department said oil was leaking past barriers and toward Historic Bridge Park and said people should avoid the water.

Two homes near the spill were evacuated because of safety concerns, but no more evacuations were anticipated, according to the press release. By late afternoon today, a thick layer of oil was visible at the juncture of the creek and the Kalamazoo River, near A Drive North and 15 1/2-Mile Road in Marshall Township.
Many small fish washed up on the banks of the river today. River access points were staffed by the sheriff’s department or Enbridge employees, and A Drive North near the spill was blocked off and policed by the Fredonia Township Fire Department on Monday afternoon.

Battle Creek resident Jim Blankenship said he smelled oil and called 911 around 9 p.m. Sunday as he was leaving the Marshall Moonraker on 17-Mile Road. A call came into the dispatch center at 9:25 p.m., said Jeff Troyer, executive director of the Calhoun County Consolidated Dispatch Authority.

The center dispatched the Marshall Fire Department, which then called Marshall Township around 11 p.m. because the spill occurred in the township, Troyer said.