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From the U.S. Coast Guard press release:
Initial engineering calculations indicate potential volume of crude oil that could have been released from the affected pipeline is 1.1 million gallons.
So yeah, no one can go out there with a bucket and measure it, but that’s probably a safe estimate.
I see a Carpenter’s friend.