VENTURA, Calif. (Map, News) - About 10,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a storage tank owned by a pipeline company in Ventura, officials said Thursday.

The spill was reported to the Ventura County Environmental Health Division last week and the oil was confined to a secondary containment system owned by Crimson Pipeline, the agency said in a statement.

There were no "visible impacts" to the environment and cleanup was completed Monday, the statement said.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the spill. An after-hours call to Crimson, which operates pipelines throughout California, was not immediately returned.

Although several residents complained about odor from the spill, the concentration of oil vapors does not pose a health hazard, the statement said.

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2:11 PM MST on Wed., Mar. 12, 2008 re: "Mayor�s messaging after oil spill �private�"

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If its the public's business coming through a private device, why is it any less the public's business? The mayor is saving our tax dollars by not billing us for his cell phone and service? Right.

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12:44 PM MST on Wed., Nov. 14, 2007 re: "Cosco Busan may be moved soon"

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It's a container vessel not a tanker. You wrote in the same article, "... allowing the tanker ship to relocate from the middle of the San Francisco Bay to a local shipyard ..." "The 900-foot container vessel has been anchored in the greasy waters of the San Francisco Bay since Wednesday,..."

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12:42 PM MST on Tue., Nov. 13, 2007 re: "Cosco Busan may be moved soon"

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What use was pilot John Cota? Wasn't it his job to prevent such mishaps? I would hope he has been suspended until further investigations conclude.

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