MILWAUKEE (WSAU) Part of the tarmac will be dug up today at Wisconsin's largest airport. Crews will cut through concrete, in the hopes of finding a leak in a Shell Oil pipeline that provides jet fuel at Mitchell International. Officials say air traffic schedules will not be affected. Workers have spent more than a week trying to nail down the source of the leak -- and they believe they've pinpointed the location.
Shell operations manager Bob Herrera says about 300-feet of pipe will be removed under the airport's main taxi-way. At this point, Herrera says they're just speculating on whether the pipeline is cracked -- and removing it would give Shell a better idea why it happened. The company has had to wait for federal approval to remove the pipe. In the meantime, Shell says it has recovered about two-thirds of the estimated 9,000 gallons of jet fuel that leaked from the pipeline late last month.
