The Nation - News from Jan. 13, 1988

The million-gallon oil spill that fouled two rivers and cut off public water supplies in three states is thinning and should dissipate well before it reaches the Mississippi River, said Jeanne Ison, spokeswoman for the Cincinnati-based Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission. “We do not believe measurable quantities will be detected by the time it gets to Huntington,” W.Va., in about two weeks, said Tom Voltaggio, chairman of an Environmental Protection Agency response team from Philadelphia. The leading edge of the slick was about 15 miles north of Sistersville, W.Va., around noon.