re: Rover Pipeline spills more than 2 million gallons of drilling fluid one month in.

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Started building a pipeline a month ago?
Already has spill?
Spill is not oil or gas, but drilling fluid?

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It's just bentonite clay used as a drilling fluid to horizontally drill under the Tuscarawas River. When it happens in Louisiana no one notices because the water is already sediment filled with suspended solids. But when it happens in rivers up north everyone notices because it's like literally like tossing dirt into the water. It's an eyesore but harmless nonetheless.

The "spills" happen during horizontal directional drills sometimes because these drills are typically not very deep and the drilling fluid sometimes finds a path of least resistance to the surface. When it comes to the surface on dry land it look like a puddle of gray mud.