Crews have been working around the clock since Friday's oil spill scrubbing the streets and driveways of the Northwood subdivision, which is where the pipe burst.

The oil flowed into the storm drain system, a drainage ditch, under Highway 365 and under Interstate 40. Emergency responders managed to stop the flow at all locations.

Faulkner County Judge Allen Dodson tells Channel Seven that progress is being made. Friday afternoon well over 10,000 barrels of oil came spewing out of a ruptured Exxon pipeline covering the streets and backyards of this Mayflower neighborhood.

It has already impacted wildlife. The Hawk Center has been called in to assist in cleaning the birds that have been found covered in oil. The Hawk Center is a volunteer organization in Arkansas, completely funded by donations. They have several patients and expect more to come in Monday. Most have been ducks.

An Exxon crude oil pipeline ruptured in a Mayflower, Arkansas subdivision on Friday, forcing the evacuation of 40 homes.

Mayflower Police Chief Robert Satkowski said that the evacuations will remain in effect over-night. The chief also stated that it's too early to say how much oil spilled, but crews have prevented it from getting into Lake Conway. That was a big concern all day; the work ahead will focus on clean-up around the affected areas in town.

In 2009, Exxon modified the capacity of the Pegasus pipeline, increasing the capacity to transport Canadian tar sands oil by 50 percent, or about 30,000 barrels per day. In a 2012 report, Bloomberg News reported the pipeline daily capacity to be 96,000 barrels of oil per day.

From the local THV 11:

MAYFLOWER, Ark. (KTHV) - It was a rough start to the Easter holiday weekend after an oil spill struck in Mayflower. Authorities said as many as 40 homes had to be evacuated Friday afternoon.

Mayflower Police Chief Robert Satkowski said that the evacuations will remain in effect over-night. The chief also stated that it's too early to say how much oil spilled, but crews have prevented it from getting into Lake Conway. That was a big concern all day; the work ahead will focus on clean-up around the affected areas in town.

"So that is a pipeline that has busted and has flooded the neighborhood," said THViewer Drew Barnes, who gave THV 11 video of the Northwoods subdivision in Mayflower Friday.

"The smell is unbelievable. I mean, look!" Barnes said as he shot the video of his neighborhood.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has been on scene with air monitors, going through the neighborhoods to determine if the air quality has been effected.

"A lot is all that I can estimate," Chief Satkowski said of the spilled oil. "It flowed from approximately 2:45p.m. when it was discovered by a homeowner to after 3 p.m. I want to say almost 3:30."

France's Total SA says current market conditions favour processing oil sands crude on the U.S. Gulf Coast rather than building an $11.6-billion upgrader in Alberta, as the company took a $1.65-billion (U.S.) loss on its 49 percent stake in the cancelled Voyageur project.

Total announced the writedown a day after its partner, Suncor Energy Inc., announced the cancellation of the Voyageur project. Suncor – Canada’s largest oil-sands producers – said market conditions have changed dramatically in the past few years, particularly with the huge supplies of light oil from U.S. shale plays flooding into the market.

A mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed and leaked 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota on Wednesday, as debate rages over the environmental risks of transporting tar sands across the border.

The leak - the first major spill of the modern North American crude-by-rail transit boom - came when 14 cars on a 94-car Canadian Pacific train left the tracks about 150 miles north west of Minneapolis near the town of Parkers Prairie, the Otter Tail Sheriff's Department said.