SEVEN POINTS -- Arkansas residents will recount the disastrous petroleum spill on Lake Conway six months ago when a petroleum pipeline that also runs under Cedar Creek Lake burst. The presentation will be during a town hall meeting at the Seven Points Recreation Center at 410 John Thomas Road on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 2 p.m. The speakers are expected to warn local residents that Cedar Creek Lake could experience the same type of disaster if the 65-year-old Pegasus Pipeline operated by Exxon Mobil is allowed to reopen. The pipeline was shutdown by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration after the pipeline spilled 200,000 gallons of diluted tar sands bitumen into a Mayflower, Ark., neighborhood. Exxon Mobile officials want to reopen the pipeline once repairs are made, according to opponents of it who are organizing a petition drive to shut it down permanently. The same pipeline runs through the outskirts of Mabank, Gun Barrel City, and Seven Points on its way to Corsicana, and then to Beaumont and Nederland, Texas. Its route takes it right under the middle of Cedar Creek Lake. It runs past Mabank High School, 505 Ranch Estates and the polo field, underneath Gun Barrel City Airpark's tarmac, through Harbor Point Estates, under Tom Finley Park and under Cedar Creek Lake Reservoir. Speakers at the meeting are expected to present information that includes the difference between diluted tar sands bitumen, or "dilbit," and conventional crude oil, the alleged poor condition of the recently closed pipeline, and what area communities can do to prevent its re-opening or twinning. The town hall meeting is sponsored by Safe Community Alliance and Public Citizen. Gun Barrel City resident Price Howell is the local coordinator. The U.S. Department of Transportation recently released a 630-page redacted report on inline testing of the portion of the pipeline running from Arkansas to Corsicana, according to the group. The document was made available by the efforts of U.S. Rep.Tim Griffin of Arkansas (http://griffin.house.gov/pressrelease/ griffin-releases-new-mayflower-pre-spill-reports-and-data-after-receiving-phmsa). It was prepared for ExxonMobil Pipeline Company by NDT Systems and Services. Inc. The report lists thousands of anomalies on 206 pages, according to the group The group maintains that based on the report there are at least eight problems that were discovered in the ½"-wall of the pipeline under Cedar Creek Lake. The roughly one mile of pipeline that runs from the water's edge, under Tom Finley park, through the neighborhood of Harbor Point Estates, and then underneath the Gun Barrel City Airpark tarmac had as many as twenty six anomalies. Here the pipe is 3/8" thick, or less. The group has reported problems that include mill anomalies, an internal problem that resulted during the pipe's manufacture; metal loss anomalies, most of which are the result of corrosion, and long seam anomalies, problems along the lengthwise joint where the pipe was welded. The group claims that ExxonMobil Pipeline Company knew about these problems by the end of 2010, yet they continued to risk the health and safety of this and many communities by continuing to pump diluted tar sands bitumen through their unsafe pipeline. Questions being raised in the town hall meeting include what ExxonMobil plans to do about these anomalies and how do they plan to address those sections of pipe-line that are under Cedar Creek Lake, buried in the sediment? The doors will open at 1:30 p.m., and refreshments will be served.