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An oil well blew in Marina del Rey but authorities took a week to tell the neighbors
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An oil well blew in Marina del Rey but authorities took a week to tell the neighbors
An oil well blew earlier this month at a hotel construction site in Marina del Rey. It took county officials more than a week to inform local residents.
Crews were replacing the seal on a nearly 90-year-old well on Via Marina when they hit an underground gas pocket within the well and it blasted out a geyser of oil, gas, water, sand and drilling mud.
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