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Three external links all working as of 5/5/2007. User_Talk:David Jordan

The photo identified as a picture of the gusher is actually a different well. This should be removed or replaced. 3/31/2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.179.178.130 (talk) 15:28, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are right - image has been removed. Does anyone have a good foto of the Lakeview gusher? Plazak (talk) 13:48, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brought Under Control?

The article currently states that '...the gusher was brought under control 18 months later, (about September 1911).' Not much information there, I thought, so I did a little digging and found this:

'Finally, on Sept. 9, 1911, 544 days after the well blew in, the Lakeview gusher caved at the bottom and died as suddenly as it was born. It had produced an estimated 9 million barrels of oil, a record for the time. More than 4 million barrels had been saved. The remainder was lost.' (From http://www.irwinator.com/126/wdoc157.htm)

Given the current situation with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill I expect there might be an increase in traffic to this article. Might be worth making it more in-depth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.55.72 (talk) 04:28, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're correct about the fact the the Lakeview Gusher was never controlled. It did in fact "sand up". It stopped it's self. Workers actually spent several months poking around the well's crater trying to find the original casing and get it started again. (Yea they must have be crazy) This is recounted in Oildorado by William Rintoul. Another thing is that the whole valley was NOT flooded with oil. Dikes were built a few miles from the well. They successfully contained the oil and prevented it from getting into Buena Vista Lake. Those dikes are still there today. I'm familiar with a lot of history of the west side and this well but I'm a noob at editing in wikipedia. Nerd3D (talk) 09:21, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this listed as history's largest oil spill when Wikipedia's own page for the Gulf War oil spill shows that this actually released 2 million fewer barrels of oil?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.76.189.150 (talk) 19:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because the Lakeview gusher produced 9 million barrels and the Gulf War Spill is estimated between 2 and 6 million. Nerd3D (talk) 09:21, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Present situation

I think it should be made clearer what it looks like in the area today - beyond a picture showing a few inches. I suppose the point is it looks quite normal, with few visual signs that something of this scale happened not much more than a century ago, but then, that should be made clear. Also, something about environmental impact in the decades following, and today - soil pollution, or whatever. Again, the point may be that it is limited?--Nø (talk) 10:39, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]