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Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel called an afternoon press conference Tuesday to speak about his investigation into an oil spill March 29th that rocked the town of Mayflower.

Signs blasting ExxonMobil and trumpeting clean energy were held high as speakers called for unity during a rally to mark the one-month anniversary of an oil spill that rocked the Mayflower community.

The oil spill in Mayflower has water managers and local politicians worried about one of Central Arkansas's most important resources.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- The head of a powerful congressional committee visited Mayflower Sunday to get a look at the community where a pipeline burst March 29th spilling thousands of barrels of crude oil.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- Crews operating a backhoe on Saturday worked to scoop up trees and brush, loading the oil-ruined vegetation into a giant chipper to be reduced to mulch and sent away to a landfill.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- An official with Central Arkansas Water spoke Monday on the agency's worries about the proximity of an oil pipeline to one of the most important resources in the region.

"It's a major inconvenience," said John Doherty of the road block he encounters every time he leaves his home off Durham Road road in Mayflower. "I can wait 20 or 30 minutes to get through the line."

MAYFLOWER, AR -- Since the very first day of the oil cleanup effort here, there has been a lot of concern about oil traveling north from marshes near Lake Conway into the open waters of the popular fishing lake.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- Exxon Mobil documents released by the federal agency investigating the spill of an estimated 5,000 gallons of oil into a residential neighborhood here spell out a litany of dangerous compounds associated that particular type of crude.

Additional crews work in challenging conditions to keep the oil from the Mayflower pipeline rupture from spreading.

Frustration boiled over Tuesday evening during a private meeting attended by residents of the Northwood subdivision and representatives of ExxonMobil.

Inside the Northwoods subdivision crews continued work Monday to clean up roads and driveways that were blanketed in oil when a 20 inch pipeline carrying heavy crude ruptured Friday afternoon.

For the first time Sunday, journalists were allowed inside the Mayflower neighborhood where an estimated 2,000 barrels of crude oil rushed from a ruptured pipeline. Even after more than 48 hours of around-the-clock work, much of the neighborhood remained a gooey mess.

Emergency crews are on the scene in a subdivision in the area around Starlight Road North.

The intersection of Alexander Road and Vimey Ridge road was reopened after a tanker carrying a flammable solvent wrecked and spilled some of its contents. The clean-up lasted most of the night.