Detroit oil spill remains a mystery 10 years later

April 30, 2012

Detroit— The first call came in from one of the control towers at drawbridges along the Rouge River.
 
It was April 10, 2002, and by the time the reports of large amounts of oil in the water reached U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials, the spill likely had been under way for at least a day. By the time the contaminated flows had stopped, as many as 250,000 gallons of oil had spread over three miles of the Rouge, into the Detroit River and been carried as far south as Lake Erie.

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