Is This A First? Definitely Not Bakken Crude Oil This Time

Is this a first? I have never heard of this before, a crude oil pipeline bursting inside city limits, resulting in knee-deep crude oil. The Wire is reporting:

A broken oil pipe leaked 50,000 gallons of oil over a half-mile area in Atwater Village, a suburb of Los Angeles, early Thursday morning, and oil is now reportedly knee-deep on some streets.

Atwater Village is up near Glendale, across the freeway from Griffith Park.

A reader did the math:

50,000 gallons = 6684 cubic feet.

A half-mile square area is 2,640 feet by 2,640 feet.

So, 6,684 cubic feet = 2,640 x 2,640 x (feet deep)

Solving for "feet deep" = 6,684 / 6,969,600 = 0.00096 feet

0.00096 feet x 12 inches / foot = 0.01 inch.

Short-kneed people, the writer noted.

More likely, the reporter couldn't estimate one-half square mile.

Or more likely, the reporter was watching the workers in a hole digging to get to the burst pipe.