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SALT LAKE CITY — Emergency workers believe they have stopped an oil leak of 21,000 gallons from reaching the environmentally sensitive Great Salt Lake, one of the West’s most important inland water bodies for migratory birds that use it as a place to rest, eat and breed.
But the spill has taken a toll on wildlife at area creeks and ponds.
The leak began Friday night when an underground Chevron Corp. pipeline in the mountains near the University of Utah broke. The breach sent oil into a creek that flows through neighborhoods, into a popular Salt Lake City park and into the Jordan River, which flows into the Great Salt Lake.
From Denver Post and wire reports
