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Oil spill: Chris Reynolds asks 'Where am I?'

By Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
10:44 AM PST, January 16, 2008

Last year was a bad one for oil spills, including one in San Francisco and a bigger one in Russia. This one happened long before those and nowhere near either place -- a small spill involving Arizona steel and salt water, still slowly seeping. The National Park Service, which keeps track of the site, estimates that it gets more than 1 million visitors yearly, many of whom show up in the middle of light-hearted vacations but leave somber.

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