Energy Transfer must provide water to Bucks Co. residents impacted by jet fuel pipeline leak: DEP

UPPER MAKEFIELD TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued an order on Thursday, requiring pipeline operator Energy Transfer to provide water to residents affected by a jet fuel leak in Bucks County.

Energy Transfer will have to install point-of-entry-treatment systems to over 100 homes in Upper Makefield Township's Mt. Eyre neighborhood, as well as remediate the affected areas.

Residents were told in January that a broken underground Sunoco pipeline was leaking jet fuel, possibly for more than a year.

The spans more than 100 miles from Philadelphia to Newark, New Jersey.