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Cleanup Ongoing After Refinery Spill at Texas Ship Channel

The cleanup continues at the Corpus Christi Ship Channel after a chemical leaked from a refinery.

Vacuum trucks with Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Companies, were working on Sunday to clean the water after an undetermined amount of paraxylene leaked a day earlier from the company's West Refinery.

Paraxylene is a basic raw material used in the manufacturing of many plastics, containers and packaging, films and clothing fabrics.

Darcy Schroeder, a spokeswoman for Wichita, Kansas-based Koch, says in an email Sunday the company was recommending that traffic no longer be restricted on the ship channel as the spill was contained to a small area around one of the docks near the refinery.

Schroeder says the line that leaked the chemical was isolated and depressurized.

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