The Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily ceased clean-up operations of last year’s massive oil spill since last week because of storms and high flood levels on the Kalamazoo River. Mark Durno, deputy incident commander for the EPA response in Calhoun, tells Michigan Messenger the decision to stop clean up work was made because the river is nearly as high as it was last July 25 when Enbridge Energy Partners’ Lakehead Pipeline 6B ruptured , spewing an estimated one million gallons of Cold Lake crude oil into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.