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Post by Paws on Nov 17, 2011 4:53:03 GMT 12.75
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Post by brittonfaith on Nov 18, 2011 5:13:41 GMT 12.75
It's scarey as hell when one of those babies blows. I know. Sometimes a fluxuation in line pressure will cause these. Most of the lines were originally laid in the 50's but since then, most of it has been replaced several times. The gas companies also do daily fly overs with leak detectors (at least Texas Eastern does). They also do hands on inspection of problematic sections of line. The one at the farm lies on a fault line. There's really nothing you can do other than look out for yourself and family. It'll keep burning until the pipeline company gets the line shut down. Crews are always in the area. You just never see or notice them on a daily basis. An hour and 15 minutes to shut off yesterday is about average. As soon as the ground cools down, they'll be in to replace the lines (could be several miles of line), shove the dirt back to resembling as close as possible the original terrain and get it all replanted. Being a pond was so close to yesterdays blow, they will probably do water and aquatic life studies to make sure no harm was done to the fish or water. My experieince is that the company will bend over backwards to make sure that the landowners property is returned to 500% or better of original. Some things can never be replaced, like the woodland rockshelter, cave paintings and waterfall that our last blowout took. But they will work with you to the utmost. They may also put in a couple extra shut off stations in that section.
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