By the end of June, the company had an updated estimate for the spill of about of gasoline, and by July 13, they were reporting that about 1.4 million gallons, in addition to of contaminated water, had been collected. However, on July 22, as per the terms of the consent decree, the company put out a statement saying that they now estimated that at least had leaked, prompting regulators in the state to call the spill the largest gasoline spill on land in the history of the United States. According to the company, the pipeline had failed on July 27, 2020, meaning that gasoline had been leaking from the spot for at least 18 days prior to its discovery. The company also stated that they had installed over 385 wells in the area to help remove the gasoline and had identified all areas along their mainline that were found to have used a Type A sleeve and had replaced them with Type B sleeves. The cost of these repairs and replacements was $50 million, while the company had also spent $55 million to this point on the cleanup in Mecklenburg County. They stated that at that time, had been recovered. According to a July 25 article in EnergyWire, the cleanup is expected to last for several more years.
