Cleanup Continues After Fuel Leak at Magellan in Apple Valley

Cleanup continues at the Magellan fuel storage site in Apple Valley, after an 80,000-gallon gas storage tank .

It's likely that about 58,000 gallons of fuel from the leak remain in the ground, according to an article from Tank Storage magazine. While the city has closed four wells for testing, a report shows that the depth of the seepage is about 30 feet above the groundwater source and a few hundred feet above the city's wells, the article says.

"No one expects that any gas has gotten anywhere into the municipal water supply," Apple Valley City Administrator Tom Lawell told the Star Tribune.

The cause of the nearly 1,500-barrel leak was a failed flange gasket that fits together two pieces of pipe, according to a Bloomberg News report. Nobody was injured when the leak happened.

Magellan Midstream Partners' headquarters is in Tulsa, OK.

It owns the longest pipeline system of refined petroleum in the U.S., according to its website, and can hold 75 million barrels of products in its facilities. Its Apple Valley location can store about 500,000 barrels worth of fuel, according to Bloomberg News.

Read more from Tank Storage magazine, the Star Tribune and Bloomberg News via the Tulsa World.