MARYSVILLE, Mich., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Canadian pipeline company Enbridge will start work in January to replace a damaged oil pipeline under the St. Clair River in Michigan, a city council stated.
The Marysville council unanimously approved a measure to build an access road for workers with Enbridge to repair the 30-inch pipeline the week of Jan. 10, The Times Herald newspaper in Port Huron, Mich., reports.
Workers will start on the Canadian side of the river and pull the new pipeline underground, decommissioning the old pipeline.
City officials require Enbridge to return the work site to "pre-construction condition or better" once work is completed in spring 2011.
Line 6B of the Enbridge-operated Lakehead oil pipeline system ruptured in southern Michigan in late July, spilling around 20,000 barrels of oil into area waterways. A 12-inch dent was found later on a section of the same pipeline running under the St. Clair River.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said in a restart plan for Line 6B that Enbridge needed to replace the damaged St. Clair leg within a year.
