BendiNewsTest: California oil spill pipeline had corroded all the way through

An investigation by federal regulators has shown that the ruptured petroleum pipeline that recently spilled 101,000 gallons of crude oil near Santa Barbara was allowed by its owner to corrode to just a small fraction of its original thickness. The Guardian reports that preliminary findings released on Wednesday by the federal pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration showed corrosion at the break site had degraded the pipeline to a thickness of just one sixteenth of an inch – less than 20% of its original thickness. To put that into perspective for you, one sixteenth of an inch is the thickness of an American nickel (5 cent piece).

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