Oil and dirty water continue to overflow -- albeit at a greatly reduced rate -- near a broken well that state investigators have linked to a deadly sinkhole west of Taft.

Regulators reported this week that fluids totaling 30 barrels a day were seeping from the site as of Dec. 1. Up to 10 times that amount had been spilling from the site daily as recently as Oct. 24, the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources noted.